Tobias Tubbs

Tobias Tubbs

TOBIAS TUBBS is co-founder of Angel City Urban Farms, LLC, which has a mission to build gardens and offer healing and meaningful employment to formerly incarcerated people. He is the Chief Ambassador of the Insight Gardening program, Catalyst Program, and Words Uncaged of Lancaster Programming Facility. He also co-authored Human (2017), a book aiming to break the criminal stigma and dehumanization of people incarcerated. After 28 years in prison, Tubbs, sentenced to life in prison without parole, was released October 2018 when Former Governor Jerry Brown commuted his sentence. His work with Words Uncaged continuously tackles prison prevention, re-entry and transitioning by implementing programs and art galleries that engage the philosophy of narrative therapy.