Compelling, timely topic: The food justice movement has surged in recent years, and this book-featuring ground-breaking reporting on an unexplored aspect of mass incarceration-is positioned squarely within that growing movement.
TNP track in field: Understanding Mass Incarceration (10k+ copies combined), Prison Profiteers (5k+ copies combined), Until We Reckon (18K+ copies combined) and many others.
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 13K LinkedIn followers, 4K Instagram, and a 5K proprietary email list.
Foreword by celebrity chef: The book will feature a foreword by a celebrity chef or other public figure. Preface by Impact Justice President Alex Busansky and Vice President of Innovation Dr. Aishatu R. Yusuf, both well-known in the justice reform arena.
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), Bryant Terry (The Endless Feast); musician John Legend; justice reform icons Dwayne Betts and Susan Burton; and others.
Format: Illustrated with graphics, line drawings, photographs, and other visual elements, along the lines of Tax the Rich!, Understanding E-Carceration, Corporate Bullsh*t, and the recent The Prison Industry.