Advocate. Activist. Author.

Kerwin Pittman was born in Landstuhl Germany but raised in Raleigh, North Carolina. He is a National Social Justice Activist and Criminal Justice Reform Policy Expert. Kerwin advocates primarily in the social justice field, particularly criminal justice reform, in which he is a voice for the voiceless. Kerwin's lived experience of spending 11 1/2 years incarcerated, with over a year in solitary confinement, motivated him to start his own nonprofit. He is the Founder and Executive Director of Recidivism Reduction Educational Program Services, Inc (RREPS). A nonprofit geared towards reducing the recidivism rate in North Carolina. He also sits on the North Carolina Task Force for Racial Equity in Criminal Justice created and headed by North Carolina’s Governor Roy Cooper. As well as Kerwin sits on the State Reentry Council Collaborative created and headed by North Carolina’s Governor Roy Cooper. Kerwin is also a 2022 Soros Justice Fellowship recipient, to which George Soros and Open Society Foundation supports outstanding individuals with distinctive voices—to create change around the U.S. criminal legal system. He is also an Author who penned the book “Love Yours: A guide on how to love yourself”. Which is a self-help book slated towards empowerment of love in oneself.