New York State Writers Institute's video: Susan Burton author advocate for prison reform and formerly incarcerated women

A featured presentation of The Time for Reckoning Symposium. For more information on the symposium visit: https://www.timeforreckoning.org/ Becoming Ms. Burton is available to order from The Book House of Stuyvesant Plaza: www.bhny.com/book/9781620974353 Susan Burton is the Founder and Executive Director of A New Way of Life, a nonprofit that provides housing and other support to formerly incarcerated women. She is the co-author, with Cari Lynn, of Becoming Ms. Burton: From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women (The New Press). She is nationally known as an advocate for restoring basic civil and human rights to those who have served time. In 2015, on the 50th Anniversary of Selma and the Voting Rights Act, Susan Burton was named by the Los Angeles Times as one of eighteen New Civil Rights Leaders in the nation. Susan has been a Starbucks® “Upstander,” a CNN Top 10 Hero, a Soros Justice Fellow, a Women’s Policy Institute Fellow at the California Women’s Foundation, A Violence Prevention Fellow with the California Wellness Foundation. To learn more about A New Way of Life Reentry Project, visit http://anewwayoflife.org/