“Am I Next?” How Zion Girls Is Changing the Future for Daughters of Incarcerated Parents

The NonProfit Podcast Network · Aug 12, 2026 · 59m

I would love to hear your thoughts on this episode. Please send me a text...What happens to a child when a parent goes to prison?For Dawn Adams, that question isn’t theoretical. Her father was incarcerated when she was just 12 years old, and she remembers the shame, isolation, uncertainty, and adult responsibilities that came with growing up without him.Years later, Dawn began recognizing those same experiences in friends of her own daughters—and eventually decided something needed to exist specifically for girls navigating parental incarceration.That became Zion Girls.In this episode, I talk…