Compelling, timely topic with a cross-over audience: The food justice movement has surged in recent years, and this book also features an unexplored criminal justice reform topic.
Platform/Reach: Impact Justice staff have been profiled and quoted in top-tier media outlets including The New Yorker, the New York Times The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic Monthly, Mother Jones, and NPR. Impact Justice has an engaged social media following.
Blurbs: Likely to include Jose Andres (World Central Kitchen), Dan Giusti (former chef de cuisine at the Michelin Star restaurant Noma and founder of Brigaid); Michael Pollan (The Omnivore's Dilemma et al.); Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation); musician John Legend; justice reform icons Dwayne Betts and Susan Burton; and others.
Format: Illustrated with graphics, line drawings, and photographs, along the lines of Tax the Rich!, Understanding E-Carceration, Corporate Bullsh*t, and the recent The Prison Industry.
Promotion: Print and egalley distribution to trade and consumer media; radio and podcast campaign; in-person author events, social media campaign featuring high profile endorsements.
TNP track in field: Understanding Mass Incarceration (10k+), Until We Reckon (18K+ copies combined), and many others.
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Leslie Soble, an ethnographer and folklorist who specializes in food and foodways, is an internationally recognized voice on the carceral eating experience. In addition to leading the Food in Prison Project at Impact Justice, she is founder and artistic director of Story Soup, which facilitates dialogue across cultures and generations through food. She lives in Washington, DC.
Alex Busansky has spent the entirety of his career championing justice, working within existing legal systems, leading nonprofit organizations, and spearheading creative interventions that expand opportunity for system-impacted people. He is founder and president of Impact Justice and a board member of the Ms. Foundation for Women. He lives in Berkeley, California, with his family.
Dr. Aishatu R. Yusuf is a recognized change-maker with expertise in the systemic barriers that keep individuals and communities from reaching their potential. As vice president of innovation programs at Impact Justice, she oversees a portfolio of transformational projects that tackle complex social problems from an intersectional perspective. She lives in Oakland, California.
Operating nationally, the nonprofit Impact Justice is known for its bold ideas and boundary-breaking programs that challenge America's obsession with endless punishment.
