Broken Spirit

2019, Maryam was cleaning her house and found the manuscript for Broken Spirit she wrote in 2011. She believed The Creator did not want her to complete Broken Spirit until she experienced the four agencies that made it possible for her to become a Reentry Specialist which were The Kintock Group, Delaney Hall, Essex County Correctional Facility and Newark Reentry. As the founder of Creative Garden School (1974-1984), former Newark Public Schools board member (2001-2004) and President from 2001-2002, she credits her experiences in education that reinforced her beliefs there is a direct relationship between poor education and incarceration. Successfully operating Creative Garden School with a dynamic staff, executive board members she observed her students advance and manifest their greatness in a loving supportive environment, this is the model she would applies in reentry.




Maryam Bey lives in Newark, New Jersey (Brick City) is a Reentry Specialist compliments of extraordinary inmates at The Kintock Group, Delaney Hall, Essex County Correctional Facility, NJ Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women, Returning Citizens Group, Newark Reentry, she counseled, trained, encouraged, and inspired for more than seventeen years. Broken Spirit Let It Go So You Can Grow was inspired by students who were also broken spirits. She recognized student's and inmate's brokenness because she was broken too.