Meet John Graham, Executive Director, Good Samaritan Home | Author, Running As Fast As I Can
- Sep 25
- 1 min read
JOHN DAVID GRAHAM is the founder and executive director of Good Samaritan Home, a non-profit social service agency in Ohio, offering ex-offenders reentry housing and mentoring support. He is the author of an academic book, Citizen Circle: A Mentoring Model for Rehabilitating Ex-offenders in Darke County, Ohio, that documents the positive impact that mentoring ex-offenders has on the community. Prior to that, he was a door-to-door salesman, a children’s home counselor, substitute school teacher, truck driver, fireman, building contractor, minister, and journalist. Sometimes the road home takes many twists and turns. That long and winding road is the best preparation for writing. John’s philosophy is that the best writing occurs after a life has actually been lived—when we have had time to develop calloused hands and a tender heart. His current novel, although fiction, is the very real story of too many of us who struggle to overcome generations of poverty, neglect or abuse that have left us totally incapable of the life and love, we desperately want. It is everyone’s story because we all deserve a second chance.
You can contact John, learn more about Good Samaritan Home, or purchase his book at: https://goodsamaritanhome.org
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