Kim Cole is a certified accountant with over 12 years of experience managing, auditing, and reporting grant and government contract funding, overseeing more than $10 million in combined funding sources.

With over 20 years of dedicated service to underserved and vulnerable communities, Kim Cole has worked tirelessly to ensure equitable access to essential services, including health care, housing, mental health, and criminal justice–related supports.

As the Co-Founder of Coletrain Transformation Station Inc. (CTS), Kim Cole works closely alongside her husband, Randall Cole, to bring the organization’s mission and vision to life.
Through both her professional expertise and lived experience working directly in the community, Kim has witnessed firsthand the prevailing and unmet needs faced by justice-involved individuals and families.

Her work has been deeply informed by observing—and experiencing—how implicit bias, systemic inequities, and stigma often create structural barriers that prevent individuals from accessing meaningful, culturally responsive, and effective support.

Kim Cole is passionate about ensuring services meet people where they are, rather than labeling or limiting them based on past experiences, criminal histories, or societal assumptions.
Her leadership emphasizes dignity, equity, and accountability, recognizing that sustainable change requires addressing both individual needs and the systems that perpetuate disparity.

Through CTS, Kim continues to expand organizational capacity by strengthening infrastructure, securing funding, and developing partnerships with government agencies and community organizations.

Her efforts focus on increasing access to mental health and substance use services, closing service gaps, and supporting long-term sobriety, recovery, stability, and overall well-being for individuals and families.
Kim Cole’s work reflects a steadfast commitment to equity, transparency, and building pathways to healing and transformation for the communities CTS serves.

Randall Cole is a certified substance abuse counselor with over 15 years of experience providing services to formerly incarcerated individuals and their families. He currently provides services for the Lake County Probation Department and also offers free services to individuals and families in need, demonstrating his unwavering commitment to healing, accountability, and second chances within the community.

On March 14, 2024, Randall Cole was sworn in by Superior Court Judge Shanda M. Harry as a member of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Commission of Lake County, California, further affirming his leadership and advocacy within the justice system.

Driven by his own lived experience as a formerly incarcerated felon, Randall Cole transformed his life and made it his life’s mission to help others break free from cycles of incarceration, addiction, and generational trauma.
This passion led him to the advent of being the Co-Founder of the Coletrain Transformation Station, a Lake County–based organization created to provide support, guidance, mentorship, and hope to justice-involved individuals and their families.

Coletrain Transformation Station was born from Randall’s heart for the work—his deep understanding of what it means to feel forgotten, labeled, and written off—and his desire to be the support he once needed himself.
Through Coletrain Transformation Station, Randall Cole has directly impacted and helped hundreds of individuals by offering substance abuse counseling, life skills development, reentry support, mentorship, and advocacy.

His strength-based, compassionate approach focuses on empowering individuals to recognize their worth, change their mindset, and take ownership of their future.
Many who have worked with Randall credit his guidance as a turning point in their lives, helping them rebuild relationships, gain stability, and rediscover purpose.

Randall Cole is also a renowned author whose biography, Felonies Before Birth, and its follow-up, The Chronicles of Felonies Before Birth, chronicle his powerful journey through the criminal justice system.
These works explore the concept of being “criminalized before birth,” shedding light on systemic injustice, generational trauma, wrongful convictions, and the social conditions that often predetermine outcomes for youth growing up in marginalized communities.

In his books, Randall courageously shares his experience of facing a sentence of 53 years to life for crimes he did not commit, while emphasizing resilience, faith, accountability, and the transformative power of mindset.

Kamelle Leggette joins Coletrain Transformation Station as a dedicated volunteer with over 12 years of experience in grant services, serving as a writer, technical assistant, coordinator, director, and CEO. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology from California State University, San Bernardino, and has pursued graduate studies in the Master of Social Work program at the University of Southern California.
Throughout her career, Kamelle has helped secure millions of dollars in funding for organizations providing homeless and housing services, mental health care, youth justice programs, and pharmaceutical technologies that advance equitable access to medications and vaccines for disadvantaged countries. Her commitment to this work is not merely a profession but a calling—one shaped by her faith in Jesus Christ and her lived experience navigating systems of care that often fail the most vulnerable. Through advocacy for voices silenced by inequity, Kamelle found God in the work of justice, compassion, and service.
As a former participant in state-funded low-income services and Department of Justice programs, Kamelle both received critical support and endured discrimination within systems intended to help. Her lived experience with homelessness, domestic violence, mental health challenges, and the criminal justice system ignited a lifelong commitment to community service. In particular, she has been a steadfast advocate for women of color experiencing domestic violence—women who are too often ignored, disbelieved, or wrongfully labeled as perpetrators due to implicit bias.
Kamelle’s calling also extends to youth advocacy and prevention programs aimed at reducing unplanned pregnancies, substance use, and untreated mental health issues that are pervasive in underserved communities. Her work is driven by a desire to intervene early, promote dignity, and help individuals and families avoid cycles of harm before they take root.
She is the author of the self-help book How to Survive When It Hits the Fan, a manual and workbook she originally developed in a 99-cent lined notebook during a nine-month personal crisis. Kamelle’s journey exemplifies how faith, resilience, and lived experience can be transformed into purposeful action—continuing the legacy of service, advocacy, and integrity established by her father, Grant Leggette.
As a member of the CTS team, Kamelle supports the organization by enhancing access to quality services, advancing equity, dignity, and transparency in service delivery, developing evidence-based assessment tools, and contributing to data analysis that strengthens organizational practices and outcomes.