Stone Soup Leadership Institute

A Man With a Past Gives Back
When Will Morales was only 14 years old, he was already a leader of an infamous gang, in prison for dealing drugs. It took his brother’s death for him to realize he had reached rock bottom. After a lifer taught him how to read, he decided he wanted to help others — young-people like himself -with brains .and high aspirations — .to stay out of trouble. Now a 27-year old law student, home owner and. founder of Boston’s Urban Edge’s Youth Police Partnership, Will shows kids how to defend themselves with words, not fists, knives and guns. “I still carry a gun,” Will tells them, “But it’s a mental gun-and what I’m shooting for now is the sky –the hope, peace and freedom in the sky!”