![]() ![]() “Susan Burton has overcome tremendous difficulties to achieve extraordinary accomplishments in the last two decades as a nationally renowned activist and community organizer,” said CSUN President Dianne F. ![]() ![]() On Monday, May 20, Burton will receive an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from California State University, Northridge in recognition of all she has done to transform the lives of incarcerated women and at-risk youth, and for her efforts to share what she has learned with the world, including CSUN students. Determined to help other women like herself, she founded A New Way of Life Reentry Project in South Los Angeles in the late 1990s. It took six visits to prison before Susan Burton found the support she needed to break the incarceration cycle. ![]()
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