Mark Weimer, M.S.W.

Mark Weimer received both his B.A. in history and M.S.W. from the University of Iowa.  He worked as an adult probation and pretrial release counselor in one of the first such programs in the State of Iowa.  Mark has worked in group homes for juveniles, as a clinical social worker/therapist with emotionally disturbed adolescent males in residential placement, and at home as a full-time parent.  Following retirement, he worked as a substitute teacher then began volunteering with TCJC.  Mark has since joined TCJC part-time as an Inmate Correspondence Coordinator.  He is passionate about bringing change to the criminal justice system that will end racial disparity, the targeting of the poor, and the use of the death penalty.