Let's Saidiana
Doris Mangrum has done extensive academic study in Music, Early Childhood Education, and Human Development and is a nationally recognized authority on matters concerning the incarcerated and the formerly incarcerated parent, their families, the pangs of long separation and the reunification process. Doris is a trainer and motivational speaker. She has been a sought after expert on program and intervention design by correctional facilities,faith based and community organizations. She has been an advisor on family matters in high profile criminal cases, and an expert on movie detailing and screening. She is the author of "After The Bungy Jump, There's Still A Lot of Jerking Goin' On" and is in post production of "STAINS: Changing Lives After Incarceration" her first feature length national documentary. Traveling over 10 states in 2009 for production, the film is scheduled for release in 2010. She is the owner of Saidiana Productions, a company whose mission is to develop books, arts and media productions calling attention to the plight of families affected by incarceration. Her non-profit, Saidiana Works, Incorporated is dedicated to supporting resource linking, training and helping families navigate through separation by incarceration, military deployment, study abroad and any other reasons causing long periods of separation from family.
Doris has been a parenting professional for over 25 years with the last 19 focusing much of her efforts on incarcerated parents and the plight of their families. She has worked in various positions within a Northern California Correctional Facility since 1991.
Doris is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., American Correctional Association, Natoinal Association of Black Journalists, Association for the Study of African American Life and History, e-Women Network, Lorenzo Alexander's ACES Foundation team and the Bay Area Business Roundtable.
She has appeared on numerous television and radio broadcasts including " View From the Bay" with Spencer Christian and Janelle Wang and was recently quoted in the UK Guardian at the height of the Phillip Garrido 18 year kidnapping case of Jaycee Dugard. Doris is the host and producer of "Let's Saidiana", a community awareness program aired weekly on KDYA - Gospel 1190 AM - "The Light"
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It really boils down to this:
that all life is interrelated.
We are all caught in an
inescapable network of mutuality,
tied into a single garment of destiny.
Whatever affects one directly,
affects all indirectly.
I can never be what I ought to be
until you are what you ought to be.
This is the interrelated structure of reality
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"After the Bungy Jump, There's Still A Lot of Jerking Goin' On" is Doris Mangrum's first book. Launched at the same time as her business Saidiana Productions. The book follows a mother's eight years of incarceration and all the pangs of that experience while following the family for that same eight year period. It gives the reader an opportunity to see what happens from both sides of the bar when a member of the clan is detained.
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It is her desire to call attention to the plight of the families left behind as a result of incarceration of a loved one.
There is a problem with reentry - the formerly incarcerated in large numbers keep going back to prison - without intervention many will return within three years of their release.
While we may not know all the answers to the recidivism crisis - we know that family is the first line of defense.
Family is the reentry program of first and last resort- their unattended ills or supported well-being spill over into the neighborhood, city, county, state nation. It is important that we not only work to include but also improve the status of those left behind as we rebuild our nation - one family at a time.
Join us in our quest to saidiana (help each other) and be the change and the supporters the world has been waiting for.
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Below is a very simple yet powerful statement that can be life changing, life directing, life illuminating. If you can remember it and apply it - it will help direct your path.
"There's nobody better than you - BUT - you are no better than anyone else"
Let this statement drive your daily interactions - it will both uplift you and keep you humble.
