Network Leadership
Thorin Daye, Executive Director
Thorin Daye is the Executive Director of Network Support Services, a reentry focused organization providing prison-based therapeutic programs, pre-release discharge and reentry planning as well as community-based transitional services. Thorin dedicated five years as a New York State Correctional Officer and graduated Cum Laude with an AAS degree in Green Building Maintenance and Management. He is a decorated combat veteran with eight years of devoted honorable service between two military branches.
Rhiannon Murphy, Interim Board Chair
Rhiannon Murphy - born and raised in NYC. Over 15 years in Arts Education Services with NYC Department of Education and 7 years of Federal Grant Project Management. Former head of sales generating partnerships with schools to implement Arts Integration programming. Sold $1m in Arts Education programming with 44 school partners within a year. Community Outreach / Recruitment and secured 43 schools to apply for $762k in City Council and Dept. of Ed Grants. Managed School Contracts / Budgets and Billing for Dept. of Ed. Strategic Partnerships.
Wesley Caines, Board Member
As Chief of Staff at Bronx Defenders, Wesley provides comprehensive reentry and reintegration services to clients and community members. Wesley, a Bronx native, joins from Brooklyn Defender Services where he was Reentry Specialist/Coordinator. A graduate of Bard and New York Theological Seminary, Wesley educates people on criminal justice issues as they connect with personal agency. With the American Bar Association, he consults on criminal justice, and as Board Member for the Brooklyn Community Bail Fund, he works to improve justice outcomes of the disadvantaged.
Eddie Williams, Jr., Board Member
Mr. Williams is an alumnae and 14-year participant of the Network in the Prisons Program. He is a man of faith, devoted husband, father, grandfather, and great-grandfather. Eddie leads his Affirmation Seminar with passion through the sharing of his life experiences. He brings the realities of a negative mindset and behaviors to illustrate the magnitude of such on the mind, body and spirit. Mr. Williams’ message is one of growth and evolution, coming from the self-inflected pain and torment he internalized for many years, resulting in events that shaped the course of his life. Through his.experience with the criminal justice system, he has gained a profound insight into the need for drastic reform within the system. Mr. Williams holds a BS in Criminal Justice from Marist College, and a Masters in Professional Studies from New York Theological Seminary.
In Memoriam, Our Founders
Anne J. Williams
Anne Williams was Executive Director of the Network Program from 2002 to 2010 under Episcopal Social Services and then from 2010 to 2020 as the organization transitioned to Network Support Services. Ms. Williams’ strong background in development and management of educational, vocational, and support programs for the economically and educationally disadvantaged lent itself well to the growth and qualitative and quantitative expansion of Network, both in the prisons and in the community reentry component. Her counseling and mentoring skills, acquired over years of program management and college-level teaching, made her sensitive to the needs of clients and staff and she imparted this training to all members of the Network Team.
In 2009, Ms. Williams designed and developed the Network Therapeutic Reentry/Green Collar Training Program, underwritten by the New York State Department of Labor with funding via the 2010 American Recovery Act. This ground-breaking program had outstanding outcomes with 65 participants trained and placed in unsubsidized employment in high-growth “green” industries and 34 “off the street” men and women placed in jobs matching their existing skills.
Ms. Williams was an accomplished writer, editor, published poet and translator with extensive experience in both the United States and Europe, and used her literary skills to further her commitment in the areas of education, film, art, medicine, law and social justice.
Rev. Stephen J. Chinlund
The Rev. Stephen J. Chinlund devoted much of his life to prison reform and substance-abuse rehabilitation. A native New Yorker, Rev. Chinlund graduated from Harvard College and then prepared for the ministry at General Seminary and Union Theological Seminary. He also studied social work at Columbia and NYU.
In 1966, he became assistant director of Exodus House, a program designed to help formerly incarcerated people transition to life in the community. He went on to found Reality House, a substance-abuse treatment center in New York, and he directed the Manhattan Rehabilitation Center from 1968-1973. Rev. Chinlund then established a counseling program at the Taconic State Correctional Facility and a prisoner-family program for New York State’s Department of Corrections, eventually participating with Dr. Cherie Clark in developing the Network program which is in use until today. He also chaired a corrections commission which had oversight of treatment standards for prisoners throughout New York’s criminal-justice system.
Rev. Chinlund returned to parish ministry in 1982 and then became executive director of Episcopal Social Services in New York, a position he held until his retirement in 2005. In recent years, he became a devoted painter, wrote a play and a book about prison reform, and was involved in advocacy work until his death in 2020.