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Shaka Senghor is the head of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) at TripActions, college lecturer, and author. As of October 2015, Senghor also teaches a class as part of the Atonement Project, a partnership between him, the University of Michigan, and the MIT Media Lab. His memoir, Writing My Wrongs, was published in March 2016. Senghor was named to Oprah's SuperSoul 100 list of visionaries and influential leaders in 2016. Early life Senghor was raised in a middle class family in Detroit during the 1980s. He ran away from an abusive home at the age of 14, after which he was persuaded to join the illegal drug trade by older, more experienced dealers. Murder and imprisonment In the summer of 1991, Senghor shot and killed a man, after which he spent 19 years incarcerated in different prisons in Michigan, seven years of which were in solitary confinement. Of these seven years, four and a half were consecutive. He was released from prison in 2010. In his book Writing My Wrongs, Senghor discusses rehabilitation and accountability while in incarceration. Books Letters to the Sons of Society: A Father’s Invitation to Love, Honesty, and Freedom (2022) Writing My Wrongs: Life, Death, and Redemption in American Prison (2016) See also List of homicides in Michigan References External links Appearances on C-SPAN. Discover the Shaka Senghor popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Shaka Senghor books.