Starbucks Upstanders: Breaking the Prison Pipeline
A former inmate’s quest to keep ex-convicts from returning to prison. Susan Burton, who spent years behind bars, is determined to keep other female ex-convicts from returning to prison by giving them a place to live that is free of drugs, alcohol and abusive relationships. She has helped hundreds of them start new lives.
Upstanders is a Starbucks Original Series celebrating ordinary people doing extraordinary things to create positive change in their communities. These stories of humanity remind us that we all have the power to make a difference. In 2016 and 2017, I produced, filmed and edited 8 of these films during the two-season-series working across the country to tell these stories.