![]() ![]() Nevertheless, Carter opened up to Hardwicke, sharing a few of her life changing experiences. “Holly-weird” she now calls Tinseltown as a result. Jerry Brown’s office and the parole board, had drawn interest from Hollywood before, she said, but once-promising opportunities always vanished as quickly as they appeared. “I have been so overpaid that I’m afraid to not continue to do this work to help other women.”Ībout three years ago, writer and “Thirteen” director Catherine Hardwicke approached Carter after seeing a CNN clip chronicling her journey.Ĭarter, who in 2017 received a pardon from then-Gov. “I’m living beyond my wildest imagination,” Carter added. We continue to use our experiences and platform to shed light to other women that it’s not over, that you can come out of abusive relationships, homelessness, incarceration and build a better life. “People are to be reminded that no matter how far on the scale you’ve gone, there is a comeback, a way up and out. “It all changed with Time for Change Foundation,” Carter, whom CNN named a Top 10 Hero in 2015, said. ![]() In addition to helping more than 1,700 women reclaim their lives, the nonprofit, which Carter expanded into the Bay Area in 2018, also has reunited more than 300 foster children with their mothers. She became an accountant, and in 2002 founded Time for Change Foundation in San Bernardino to help women transition from homelessness and incarceration to self-sufficiency. ![]() In the past, Carter has credited a stint in a rehabilitation program for turning her life around. “People have dreams to do all types of things,” Carter added, “and I’m living in someone else’s dream right now.”Ī former addict living without a home in San Bernardino, Los Angeles and San Francisco counties, Carter spent the better part of a dozen years – from ages 18 to 30 – in and out of prisons and jails. I would never think to ask God that, and that’s how you know it’s truly a blessing, because this had nothing to do with my skills or ability to make it happen. “Give me a new car, get my credit right, but I don’t be asking to be on no big screen. “Sometimes I can be overly blessed, blessed to where I’m in a position I never would’ve asked God to give me that,” Carter said in a July 7 phone interview. ![]()
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