
With Samuel, Wolff from ILRio and CDI founder Rodrigo Baggio, and NY board member Noah Goodnight, visiting a leading CDI school and listening first hand to Wanderson da Silva Scrock. He was a veteran of juvenile detention centers at the age of 17. He headed the financial operation of Comando Vermelho, one of Rio’s biggest drug gangs that controlled 13 different favelas in the city. In prison, he took a course at a CDI school and started training to be an instructor. Today, he teaches at this center, a 3 hours commute each way. In the process, he has discovered two new passions: information technology and the ability to inspire others to follow his example of successful reform.