How a convergence of policy, law, and profit drives the use of criminal background checks in hiringMost employers in the United States routinely conduct criminal background checks on job applicants, weeding out those with criminal convictions—and thus denying opportunities to those who need them most. In this powerful analysis**,** Melissa Burch sheds light on one of the most significant forces of social and economic marginalization of our time—discrimination on th...

MEMOIR 2017 SILVER WINNER OF IBPA BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AWARD • 2016 SILVER Foreword INDIES AWARD WINNER •For readers of Cheryl Strayed, Martha Beck, and Elizabeth GilbertIn this adventurous spiritual memoir, Melissa Burch discovers that by facing her near death, living outside her comfort zone and trusting her intuition, she could find herself and set a new course for her life."My Journey Through War and Peace: Explora...

She Risked Everything to Become a Mother, Lover and Healer"....a brave adventurer who discovered her own life.”— Kirkus ReviewsIn her debut memoir*, My Journey through War and Peace*, Melissa Burch told the compelling story of how she braved a war zone as a young woman and found her voice as a filmmaker and feminist.Yearning for Magic continues Melissa’s adventures as she explores new horizons as a mother, lover and healer. She learn...

Would you like to learn how to discover yourself through journal writing? Have you thought about writing a memoir, but don’t know where to begin? Do you have memorable life stories that you’d like to share with others? If so, you’ll benefit form the valuable journaling tools, writing advice and inspiration in this helpful guide. Using the ideas in The Four Methods of Journal Writing: Finding Yourself Through Memoir will reveal amazing insights from your wise inner self that will s...

My Journey Through War and Peace: Explorations of a Young Filmmaker, Feminist and Spiritual Seeker is based on Melissa Burch’s experiences as a war journalist for BBC, CBS, and other networks. Her team was one of the first documentary crews allowed in the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War, and she was featured in a New York Times story about her time in Afghanistan. She was just in her twenties when she traveled with the mujahedeen, filmed an attack on a Soviet convoy, slept with ...

Most employers in the United States routinely conduct criminal background checks on job applicants, weeding out those with criminal convictions. In this powerful analysis, Melissa Burch sheds light on one of the most significant forces of social and economic marginalization of our time—discrimination on the basis of criminal records. Chronicling the daily interactions of hiring managers, workforce development professionals, and job-seekers with felony convictions in Southern California, Bu...

Inspired by Melissa's true-life story, Happy Face is now a Paramount+ Original Series. Stream the thrilling new drama, starring Annaleigh Ashford and Dennis Quaid, now.For over a decade, Melissa kept her family's shameful secret. Locked in silence, she felt her innocence slip away as she slowly uncovered the truth about her father's violent past. And she told no one... Until she realized she had a choice.She couldn't change the past. She couldn't go back an...

Facts, figures, and essays on women and poverty by Barbara Ehrenreich, Kirsten Gillibrand, LeBron James, and other high-profile contributors.Fifty years after President Lyndon B. Johnson called for a War on Poverty and enlisted Sargent Shriver to oversee it, the most important social issue of our day is once again the dire economic straits of millions of Americans. One in three live in poverty or teeter on the brink—and seventy million are women and the children wh...

An old fashioned fairy tale.

Available open access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.A ground-breaking international collection, Born into Care brings together leading scholars, practitioners, advocates and mothers with lived experience to confront the hidden and deeply controversial practice of infant removal at birth.The first book of its kind, it delivers a powerful critique of the legal, ethical and political systems that perpetuate a practice which disproportionately impacts marginalised families. Topics ...