Celebrating and recognizing Sandra "Nan" Hill for her relentless work to improve the lives of people around her and to recognize the dignity of every person, particularly people who are incarcerated, on the occasion of Black History Month.

Celebrating and recognizing Sandra “Nan” Hill for her relentless work to improve the lives of people around her and to recognize the dignity of every person, particularly people who are incarcerated, on the occasion of Black History Month. WHEREAS, Sandra “Nan” Hill was born and raised in Philadelphia, growing up in South Philadelphia. She is a mother of five, grandmother of ten, and great grandmother of sixteen. Nan spent most of her time with her childhood friends, Brenda, Barbara and Eleanor; and WHEREAS, She first became interested in doing work supporting survivors and loved ones of incarcerated people when her husband experienced infractions with the law. Nan fostered her passion after volunteering at Voyage House on Lombard Street in South Philly and also visiting Cornwell Heights - a juvenile facility - during the 1980s; and WHEREAS, In 1986, she met a young man named Robert Asafo Williams hoping to provide emotional support to him. She did not know then this unlikely friendship would be life changing. While behind the walls, Asafo would give her the tools she needed to guide her six grandsons past the age that cost him his freedom. Today all of her grandsons are productive, law-abiding young men. Nan didn’t realize the people that she met along the way would be as much help to her as she wanted to be for them. WHEREAS, Seeing how the penal system played out, she began to connect with her children’s friends by talking to them through difficult situations. They, in tur…