Dynamic Tabling: From Stigma to Strength

At Revolutionary Reentry Hub we take the fight against stigma to the streets.

At community events across Chicago and Cook County we set up a Dynamic Table, a spinning wheel, stigma-shattering cards, and a pledge wall that turns a passerby into an activated community member. Every person who walks away will have learned something, questioned something, or had a belief challenged.

Who leads the work:

Every table is led by system-impacted individuals, people who have personally lived what the cards describe. We provide a $50 stipend to each volunteer per event. Not as payment. As an acknowledgment that navigating the subject of incarceration and stigma in public, repeatedly, with strangers, can be triggering for people who have lived it. That courage deserves to be honored and resourced.

What your gift funds:

$10 — cards and materials for one event,

$25 — full supplies for one complete tabling event,

$50 — one stipend honoring one system-impacted volunteer,

$100 — one full event including two volunteer stipends,

$250 — five events reaching up to 500 people this summer

Stigma is a mark placed on a person that causes others to see them as permanently less capable, less worthy, and dangerous, rooted in stereotypes and myths, not truth.

We are shattering it. One conversation at a time.

Join us.

2026 Summer Dynamic Tabling Campaign