Tito Porter Posts

Memphis Allies’ Tito Porter and Willie ‘Fresh’ Rodgers receive Gold Kite Awards. It takes a special person to work on the front lines for Memphis Allies. By engaging with people at the highest risk for gun violence, staff members accept several realities.

A professional overview of Memphis Allies and its goal of reducing gun violence comes with slides, statistics, graphs and a few words from the leadership team.

‘These guys have nothing to lose’ is why Memphis Allies’ Tito Porter does what he does A gun, Tito Porter says, is just a means to an end. In fact, at age 19, it enabled Porter to have his own place. “My first apartment on my own was a jail cell,” he said. Porter stayed more than four years. By the time he got out, he had learned money was worthless compared to freedom.