“Being a father is surreal,” says Deeazo. It changed everything for him and made him look at life in an entirely new light. Surrounded by poverty, drugs, and violence in Brooklyn, he knew that his young daughter deserved better.
Incarceration at Rikers Island could have crushed his desire for change, but Deeazo is determined—once he was mentally committed to a new way forward, giving up wasn’t an option.