A former gang member who spent 20 years in prison is sharing her story in hopes of helping others walking down the same path she once did.
Tania Ross is a former gang member who spent 20 years in prison. Now, she's a motivational speaker and runs a healing lodge working with high-risk youth.The 43-year-old is originally from Opaskwayak First Nation in northern Manitoba and grew up in Winnipeg’s North End.
“And so when my sisters see me, and they see me on TV and see that I’m doing good, I can give them hope that you can do this — you can make it out, you can give back to your community. And so that’s one of the reasons why I want to come on, to give people hope.”“I wanted a different life but I didn’t know how. I never lived a legit life in my whole life. I never knew what it was to have a legit job, I never had a legit job,” she said.“I didn’t know how to live a good life.
That forgiveness, Ross says, was the start of her path forward — one that would take her out of prison and give her a second lease on life, something she realized was becoming a reality when she got her first pass out of prison. That involved revisiting the North End and revisiting the community where she experienced her childhood trauma, but this time, with a different purpose.
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