Susan Burton

Susan is a visionary, inspirational leader of the criminal justice reform movement, author of award-winning memoir, Becoming Ms. Burton, and founder of A New Way of Life Reentry Project . She was named a CNN Top Ten Hero and received the Citizen Activist Award from Harvard. She is also the recipient of the Encore Purpose Prize and the James Irvine Foundation Leadership Award among many more. Susan launched the Sisterhood Alliance for Freedom and Equality Housing Network to replicate the effective and humane reentry model.  The network spans across the U.S., Uganda, Nigeria, and Kenya. It is through this work that she thrives, enjoying the progress of her foundations, all while knowing how many individual lives she has touched and changed throughout her    own journey.