Author and activist Susan Burton will be discussing her life and work as founder of the New Way of Life reentry program for formerly incarcerated women in Los Angeles.

Susan Burton, author of "Becoming Ms. Burton: From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women", will be speaking at the Fayetteville Public Library Event Center about her life and mission to help formerly incarcerated women find recovery services and opportunities. Susan Burton holds an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from California State University, Northridge and is a Soros Justice Fellow. Burton was selected as a CNN Top 10 Hero in 2010 and was named as one of 18 New Civil Rights Leaders in the nation by the Los Angeles Times in 2015. Susan Burton has received the Gleitsman Citizen Activist Award, Encore Purpose Prize, James Irvine Foundation Leadership Award, Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice and the 2018 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work for her memoir.

Learn more here: https://www.faylib.org/event/8138973