LETTER

 

                                                                                                                                         

In 2023, Seeing for Ourselves continued its second effort, on behalf of the clients of New York’s Department of Probation (DOP).

 

Our half-hour documentary In a Whole New Way continued playing the film festival circuit, by year-end selected by over two hundred festivals around the world and amassing over seventy awards.  The film also won additional support of the probation industry itself, with the film screened at a plenary session of the American Probation and Parole Association in concert with DOP's new leadership team. 

 

In addition, the film was aired by PBS stations across the country. And the film was screened at discussed at virtual events hosted by the American Civil Liberties Union - Delaware (ACLU-DE) and the Council of State Governments Justice Center.

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The book In a Whole New Way: Undoing Mass Incarceration by a Path Untraveled was published by 

Prospecta Press and went on to win widespread acclaim.

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The balance sheet for the year, as previously, was effectively a blank, apart from the $500 paid by ACLU-DE. We put out personal funds for festival fees, book design, and other expenses. 

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Meanwhile, our next effort, training high school students to picture their climate future, got underway with a successful pilot effort in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. Local media covered the initiative and the photography was exhibited at Thomas Memorial Library in town.

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Meanwhile, Jonathan and George continued to contribute a person-year between them in voluntary labor.

 

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