Carlos Martinez worked with the Agape Network, Inc., a not-for-profit that supports women in recovery, and Miami-Dade County to establish a remote call center that allows program participants to work while they are in treatment.

In the 1980s, 11th Circuit Public Defender Carlos Martinez was managing an Exxon on 107th Avenue in Miami when a probation officer saw his “Help Wanted” sign and made an offer.

“Of course, at the time, I had no idea what criminal courts were; I had not gone to law school,” Martinez says. “He was very creative. He explained the process of probation to me.”