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Sylvia A. Harvey, also known as SAH, is an award-winning journalist, speaker, and author of The Shadow System: Mass Incarceration and the American Family (Bold Type Books, 2020). Her work on race, class, policy, and incarceration has appeared in The Nation, Elle, Politico, Vox, The Marshall Project, The Root, and more. NPR, WBAI, Embodied WUNC, Cheddar News, and others, have featured her commentary on the criminal legal system. SAH is a dynamic speaker, known to light up any conference, university, or corporate stage with her fierce storytelling. Her work is taught in universities and has been cited by federal lawmakers pressing for reform. An Oakland native turned New Yorker, she studied sociology and journalism at Columbia University, grounding her reporting in both research and craft. She is the founder of Just Love Lab, an emerging initiative that equips justice-involved youth with financial and multimedia skills, shaping a future Health Index that reframes lived experience as evidence for change.
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In The Shadow System: Mass Incarceration and the American Family, award-winning journalist Sylvia A. Harvey follows the fears, challenges, and small victories of three families struggling to live within the confines of a brutal system.
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