Friends Association, a Chester County nonprofit working to end homelessness and promote housing justice, presents a virtual evening with Susan Burton May 12 at 7.

Burton is an activist, author, transformational leader, and survivor who will offer up a virtual conversation at this free event.

She is the founder of A New Way of Life, a nonprofit organization that provides housing and other support to formerly incarcerated women.

Burton is nationally known as an advocate for restoring basic civil and human rights to those who have served time.

She is the 2010 recipient of the Gleitsman Citizen Activist Award from the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard Kennedy School.

In 2015, on the 50th anniversary of Selma-to-Montgomery marches and the signing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the Los Angeles Times named Burton one of the 18 New Civil Rights Leaders in the nation.

She has also been named a Starbucks Upstander, a CNN Top 10 Hero, a Soros Justice Fellow, a Women’s Policy Institute Fellow at the California Women’s Foundation, and a Violence Prevention Fellow with the California Wellness Foundation.

Burton is the author, with Cari Lynn, of “Becoming Ms. Burton” (New Press). She lives in Los Angeles.

Click here to register for this event. The General Admission tickets are free but donations are being accepted that will go directly to Friends Association’s mission to create housing justice for all in Chester county.

This year, the organization is celebrating its 200th anniversary.

Find out more about the Friends Association.