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An in-development feature documentary.
Electronic press kit for producers, journalists, and editors covering Lived Experience leadership, civic impact, and reentry work at portfolio scale.
Logline & Impact Thesis
Logline. The Timelist Project follows Yusef Andre Wiley through four acts — The Beginning, The Turning Point, The Building, and The Legacy — as he moves from years inside the California corrections system to founding Timelist Group, scaling it into a $10M+ annual portfolio, and becoming a national voice on second-chance infrastructure, leadership, and civic transformation.
Impact thesis. The documentary is anchored to operating reality, not parable. The story opens inside CDCR and follows the same person who, by the final act, is delivering California's CalAIM Justice-Involved service line, operating a portfolio carrying a $63,000-per-month utility burden, and running a 171+ bed reentry housing network across 9 LA County sites with a 100+ team. That is the load-bearing claim: this is a working answer to a civic question — what does durable, peer-led second-chance infrastructure look like — rather than a redemption arc abstracted from the work.
Key Stats
A producer- and editor-ready snapshot of the project's operating scale, history, and footprint.
Annual operating budget (2026)
Team members across the portfolio
Reentry beds across LA County (up from 86)
LA County housing sites
Founded as a peer-led initiative inside CDCR
Instagram followers
Partners
Biography
A working bio, credentials, and recent media coverage for the project's principal creative.
One-sheet
Downloads
Fact sheet and press release — downloadable, ready to attach to your pitch or coverage.
Press Release Language
Three paragraphs a writer or editor can paraphrase verbatim — anchored on the story, not the pitch.
Yusef Andre Wiley founded Timelist Group, Inc. in 2007 as a peer-led initiative inside CDCR. Today he leads a portfolio that includes 9 LA County housing sites carrying a $63,000-per-month utility burden, the CalAIM Justice-Involved service line, and a transitional-workforce model built around the people it serves. He is the author of If I Knew Then and What I Know Now.
In 2026 the organization crossed $10M in annual operating budget and 100 team members, scaling housing capacity from 86 to 171+ reentry beds across LA County — including new women's sites — and launching Transpire 2.0, ChiefDesk, and RoamSmart as adjacent ventures that deepen the reentry infrastructure.
The Timelist Project, an in-development feature documentary produced with Dr. Holly Carter of Relevé Entertainment and partners Timelist Group, Relevé Entertainment, and Merge TV, follows Wiley's four-act arc — The Beginning, The Turning Point, The Building, The Legacy — and frames the documentary's posture less as a campaign story than as a working answer to one civic question: what does durable second-chance infrastructure look like.
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