SUSAN BURTON
Susan Burton is the Founder and Executive Director of A New Way of Life Re-Entry Project, a grassroots, nonprofit, sober living home for formerly incarcerated women in South Los Angeles. Having been entrapped in the criminal justice system until 1996, Susan founded A New Way of Life in 1998 and has since dedicated herself to helping other women break the cycle of incarceration, homelessness, addiction and despair.  Under her leadership, the organization has provided the opportunity for a new life to over 200 women to date, and countless more to come.

Susan is currently a Soros Justice Fellow, a Women’s Policy Institute Fellow, and a former Community Fellow under the Violence Prevention Initiative of The California Wellness Foundation. Her educational background includes completing a Chemical Dependency Certificate course at Southwest College in Winter 2002, as well as certificate programs in Non-Violent Organizing and Three Principles of Human Development at UCLA.

MELISSA BURCH
Melissa Burch is the Director of Programs at A New Way of Life Re-Entry Project. Melissa began as a volunteer at A New Way of Life before joining the staff in 2006. Her work combines direct service, policy advocacy, organizing, and leadership development, as well as oversight and coordination of all programs. Melissa became involved in anti-prison organizing while living in Louisiana, where she served as the Conference Coordinator for the Critical Resistance Southern Regional Conference in 2003.

Melissa is a long time activist and community organizer, with a BA in Social Ecology from Goddard College/Institute for Social Ecology, and a Master of Science in Urban Studies and Applied Anthropology from the University of New Orleans, College of Urban and Public Affairs.

FLOZELLE WOODMORE

FELICIA JONES

JOSHUA E. KIM
Joshua Kim is the Staff Attorney at A New Way of Life Reentry Project. Joshua volunteered as a legal intern at A New Way of Life in the summer of 2007 and joined as the first staff attorney of A New Way of Life in 2008.

Joshua has a JD with concentration in Critical Race Studies from the UCLA School of Law. He attended Deep Springs College prior to obtaining a BA in Rhetoric from the University of California, Berkeley in 2001.