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    Becoming Ms. Burton: From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women
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    Becoming Ms. Burton: From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women

    By Susan Burton, Cari Lynn and Michelle Alexander

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  • Media hook: In the midst of an unprecedented national conversation about incarceration, a book that will put a human face on the War on Drugs and on what it really means to come home from prison—with an introduction by and launch event with Michelle Alexander.
  • Platform: A media-savvy author who is revered by criminal justice reform movements from coast to coast. She has appeared on Bill Moyers and other national media, was named a CNN Hero in 2010, and was the subject of a documentary (“Susan”).
  • Major marketing & promotional tie-ins: Susan’s work and book will be featured in 1 of 10 video shorts produced and distributed by a (as yet unannounced) Starbucks initiative highlighting change-makers—videos to appear on in-store WiFi network; Susan is also featured in a documentary tied to John Legend’s #FREEAMERICA campaign, to be screened at Sundance in February—perfectly timed for the book’s March pub; financial support is expected from the California Wellness Foundation.
  • Blurbs: Author has endorsements from John Legend, Eve Ensler, Piper Kerman, Sharon Osbourne, and other high-profile personalities.
  • Credentials: Author co-founded and is active in All of Us Or None (AOUON) and the Formerly Incarcerated and Convicted People’s Movement.
    • LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe New Press
    Release dateMay 9, 2017
    ISBN9781620972137
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    Becoming Ms. Burton: From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women
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    Susan Burton

    Susan Burton is the founder and executive director of A New Way of Life, a nonprofit that provides sober housing and other support to formerly incarcerated women. She is nationally known as an advocate for restoring basic civil and human rights to those who have served time. Burton was a winner of AARP's prestigious Purpose Prize and has been a Starbucks® "Upstander," a CNN Top 10 Hero, a Soros Justice Fellow, and a Women's Policy Institute Fellow at the California Wellness Foundation. She lives in Los Angeles.

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      In Becoming Ms. Burton, Ms. Burton describes her difficulties of being young in a poor black neighborhood. There was the ever-constant worry of someone being shot or addicted to drugs. Of children being killed by police (as hers was). Of the trials of being addicted to drugs and being in and out of prison. Then she had a turn-around. She went to rehab and AA, and got a wonderful sponsor. She learned how to live sober – away from the family and neighborhood where she had always lived. She then realized how hard it is to become a functional member of society while an ex-felon. It’s hard to find a home, a job, to be treated like a human being. So she started a home for people just coming out of prison. Despite her lack of education on the topic of business, her home thrived and she helped many people to reintegrate into society. It’s a sad story as well as an uplifting one. I really loved hearing about her story, and think everyone should read books like this to help them understand that felons aren’t inherently evil – people just view them that way.