About Reimagining the Revolution
FOUR STORIES OF ABOLITION, AUTONOMY, AND FORGING NEW PATHS IN THE MODERN CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

These are the architects of the modern civil rights movement: Four profiles of revolutionary groups making change beyond protest.

A radically different approach to sustaining social justice movements — Four strategies for abolition and liberation from the new architects of the modern civil rights movement.

Many of us think, ‘I don’t support the police. But what should take their place?’ Or: ‘Prisons don’t keep us safe. But what new systems could?’

A lot of books about racial justice ask us how we got here, but Reimagining the Revolution is different: award-winning journalist and activist Paula Lehman-Ewing presents an inside-access look at the activists redefining where we go from here.

Reviews

“An excellent introduction to the modern prison abolition movement.”
—Kirkus Reviews

“In this personal exploration of today’s abolition movement, Paula Lehman-Ewing takes the reader around the United States—the most incarcerated nation in human history—to reveal the creative and profound actions abolitionists are taking to make their communities safer and more free. Reimagining the Revolution provides vibrant and intimate portraits of people directly impacted by America’s policies of mass incarceration, and shows how their work promises to change the world via concrete and pragmatic steps toward abolition.”
—PIPER KERMAN, author of Orange Is the New Black

Paula Lehman-Ewing

Paula Lehman-Ewing (’10) is an award-winning journalist and a social documentarian who specializes in profiling racial and social justice organizations and amplifying marginalized voices. She has penned thousands of articles for major publications including BusinessWeek, Reuters, Forbes and Fortune.

In 2020, she relaunched the defunct newspaper for All of Us or None, a nationwide grassroots organization vying for the restoration of human and civil rights for formerly and currently incarcerated individuals. With the help of incarcerated contributors, Paula wrote, edited, laid out, and distributed a monthly newspaper highlighting the nationwide fight for the restoration of civil and human rights for formerly and currently incarcerated individuals. For her efforts, she was awarded the 2021 Silver Heart from the Society of Professional Journalists, Northern California chapter. The All of Us or None newspaper is now sent to every prison in California and more than 160 prison yards across the country.

Paula received her undergraduate degree from Duke University and holds a Master’s in Journalism from UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism.

Shayna Keyles

Moderator Shayna Keyles is the associate director of acquisitions at North Atlantic Books. She received her BA from Oberlin College and trained as an editor through the UC Berkeley extension program, and has held several roles in the world of publishing and beyond before joining NAB in 2019. Notable books they acquired include Belly of the Beast by Da’Shaun Harrison; Fresh Banana Leaves by Jessica Hernandez; When We Walk By by Kevin Adler, Donald Burnes, et al; and Reimagining the Revolution by Paula Lehman-Ewing.

Co-sponsored by the UC Berkeley School of Social Welfare and Berkeley Underground Scholars.