Evident Change is proud to announce the finalists for the 2023 Media for a Just Society Awards. The 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. The writers, filmmakers, podcasters, and creators listed below look deeper, analyze trends, and offer insight on the systems that Evident Change works in. Please join us in congratulating them, and stay tuned to learn the award winners later this year!
BOOK
Invisible Mothers
Dr. Janet Garcia-Hallett
University of California Press
A Place Called Home: A Memoir
David Ambroz
Legacy Lit
Corrections in Ink
Keri Blakinger
St. Martin’s Press
FILM
Juvenile
Joann Selvidge and Sarah Fleming
True Story Pictures
The Road Home
Devin Fei-Fan Tau
National Institute of Corrections, U.S. Department of Justice
Possible Selves
Shaun Kadlec
Utah Film Center
MEDIA BY A PERSON WHO IS INCARCERATED
“Man Down: COVID Strikes at San Quentin”
Edmond Richardson, Uncuffed, Thanh Tran, Greg Eskridge, and Tommy “Shakur” Ross
KALW Public Media
“Humor As Medicine: Aging and Compassion in Prison”
Thanh Tran, Greg Eskridge, Tommy “Shakur” Ross, Edmond Richardson, and Uncuffed
KALW Public Media
“San Quentin Is Still Punishing People for Being Sick”
Katie Rose Quandt and Juan Moreno Haines
Type Investigations
JOURNALISM
“The Worst Abuser You Could Ever Have”
Victoria Law
The Nation
Overpolicing Parents (Series)
Eli Hager and Agnel Philip
ProPublica
Life Correction: The Marlin Dixon Story (Series)
James E. Causey and Angela Peterson
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
PODCAST/RADIO
After Life
Julie Reynolds Martínez, Gilbert Bao, and Mara Reynolds
Voices of Monterey Bay
Diaries of a Black Girl in Foster Care
Tashia Roberson-Wing
Open and Shut
Phoebe Petrovic, Dee Hall, and Nina Earnest
Wisconsin Watch and Wisconsin Public Radio
TV/VIDEO
La Manplesa: An Uprising Remembered
Ellie Walton and Cindy Centeno
America ReFramed, American Documentary Inc.
American Justice on Trial: People v. Newton
Andrew Abrahams and Herb Ferrette
Open Eye Pictures
Behind These Walls
Allison Chernow and Karin Young Shiel
Rehabilitation Through the Arts
YOUTH MEDIA
“Adjusting to My Adoptive Family”
George Romero
Youth Communication NYC
“Half of My Parents, All of Me”
Folashade Olatunde
Notes from America With Kai Wright, WNYC
“How a Secretive Police Database Affects Young Black and Brown Men”
Rainier Harris
Radio Rookies, WNYC