Changemaker of the Year: Yukari Kane
Yukari Kane is co-founder and CEO of Prison Journalism Project. She is an author, educator and veteran journalist with 20 years of experience, including at The Wall Street Journal and Reuters. She co-authored "A Prison Writer's Guide to Media Writing," and her book "Haunted Empire: Apple After Steve Jobs" was a best-seller, translated into seven languages. She has taught at Northwestern University, UC Berkeley and San Quentin State Prison, where she developed a curriculum for prison journalism. She is a member of News Literacy Project’s advisory council and an advisor for San Quentin News in California and The Endeavor, a prison newspaper at Everglades Correctional Institution in Florida.
ABOUT THE RECIPIENT: Yukari Kane has been a changemaker throughout her career, and her impact has never been more evident than in her leadership of the Prison Journalism Project. By training incarcerated individuals in the craft of journalism, Yukari's team enables them to document and share their own experiences and events occurring inside prisons. This initiative unleashes the power of journalism to unearth truths, challenges, and inequities within the world’s most populous prison system. It's not just about the stories being told; it's also about the skills these new journalists acquire through reading and writing, and the inspiration they bring to each other and their communities.