Tyrone Abraham (also known as Colin Absolam) is a founding member of Voices From Within and a justice-impacted leader who spent 25 years in New York State prisons, much of that time at Sing Sing Correctional Facility. While inside, he earned both his bachelor’s degree from Mercy College and a master’s degree from New York Theological Seminary, helped create Voices From Within as an anti-violence initiative, and ran the Prisoners for AIDS Counseling and Education program, which provided peer-led HIV education and support to hundreds of men each year.

After his release and gubernatorial pardon, Tyrone chose to keep serving the communities most impacted by incarceration. He now works with Exodus Transitional Community in New York, supporting people returning home from prison and jail and drawing on the same skills in counseling, de-escalation, and education that he honed behind the wall. Through Voices From Within, he continues to use his story—and his decades of work on the inside—to interrupt cycles of violence and offer young people a different path.