Ezekiel Jones, age 18, is an ‘original’ youth leader with GrowingChange, meaning he helped create the model GrowingChange uses to flip closed prisons into sustainable farms and educational centers. Zeke recently presented this model at MIT, teaching faculty and students about the award winning site planning of how GrowingChange plans to use the site. As a recent graduate of Hoke High School, ‘Zeke’ was the chaplain for his JROTC program and is planning to go into the Combat Infantry in 2018. Zeke has been through some challenges and feels he is capable and ready to join the US Army.