Evident Change is proud to announce the finalists for the 2022 Media for a Just Society Awards.
Each year, we recognize media from across the United States that further public understanding of Evident Change’s focus areas, including child welfare, youth justice, adult justice, and adult protection. Many of these topics are covered regularly by the media, yet their treatment is often sensationalized and not representative of system issues the public needs to understand. The media we recognize look deeper, analyze trends, and offer insight. Media for a Just Society Awards are given in the categories of book, film, journalism, media by a person who is incarcerated, podcast/radio, television/video, and youth media.
BOOK
The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth
Kristin Henning
Georgetown Law
“Prisons Make Us Safer”: And 20 Other Myths About Mass Incarceration
Victoria Law
Beacon Press
Somebody’s Daughter: A memoir
Ashley C. Ford
Flatiron Books
FILM
Apart
Jennifer Redfearn
Red Antelope Films
For Love
Mary Teegee
Carrier Sekani Family Services & Walk Tall Productions, Inc.
The Unforgivable
Nora Fingscheidt
Netflix
The First Step
Brandon and Lance Kramer
Meridian Hill Pictures
JOURNALISM
“Invisible Kid”
Maddy Crowell
Atavist Magazine
“Halim Flowers Was Given Two Life Sentences at 17. Decades Later His Art Is Shown in Galleries Worldwide”
Elliot C. Williams
DCist
“She Supported Her Child Being Trans. So the State Separated Them.”
Roxanna Asgarian
Intelligencer
MEDIA BY A PERSON WHO IS INCARCERATED
‘They can never lock your mind up.’ Three stories from juvenile jail
KUOW’s RadioActive Youth Media
“Michigan needs ‘Second Look’ legislation, I’m just one example of why”
Susan Brown
Lansing State Journal
“When The Prison Banned Board Games, We Played Chess in Our Minds”
Harlin Pierce
The Marshall Project
PODCAST/RADIO
Hear Us
Erica Nelson
Race to Equity, Dane County
Thenedra
Nora McInerny
Terrible, Thanks for Asking
Criminalizing Mental Illness
Andrew Stelzer
KALW Radio
TV/VIDEO
America ReFramed: Five Years North
Chris Temple and Zach Ingrasci
American Documentary Inc.
America ReFramed: Sisters Rising
Willow O’Feral and Brad Heck
American Documentary Inc.
Racially Charged: American’s Misdemeanor Problem
Robert Greenwald
Brave New Films
YOUTH MEDIA
“Not Allowed to Be a Kid”
Amaru Howard
Youth Communication NYC
“Breaking Free of My Mom To Be My Real Self”
Miles Dale
Youth Communication
“When I Lived in a Shelter, I Still Kept My Head Held High”
Sirsy Galarza
Youth Communication NYC