6 new books by Ashoka Fellows
Inspiring reads for your 2020 reading list
As we enter the new year, we’re looking to social entrepreneurs to show us what’s around the bend. Translating their experience to the page, these Ashoka Fellows are helping us to see social and environmental challenges in a different light and find the best ways to plug into meaningful change.
Introducing 6 new books from 2019 you’ll want to carry forward into the new decade, all written by U.S.-based Ashoka Fellows. Enjoy and share!
Eat Like A Fish: My Adventures As A Fisherman Turned Restorative Ocean Farmer
By Bren Smith
An Ashoka Fellow since 2015, Bren is training a new generation of 3D ocean farmers to grow sea greens for food and other uses — creating jobs while protecting the planet. We talked to Bren about his book here.
How to Live Forever: The Enduring Power of Connecting the Generations
By Marc Freedman
#1 on the Wall Street Journal’s list of the year’s best books on aging well. An Ashoka Fellow since 2005, Marc has sparked a movement to tap the talent and experience of people past midlife to solve our society’s most vexing problems. He founded Encore.org.
Engage, Connect, Protect: Empowering Diverse Youth as Environmental Leaders
By Angelou Ezeilo
An Ashoka Fellow since 2016, Angelou imagines a conservation movement that welcomes people of all backgrounds. She founded Greening Youth Foundation to create pathways for young people of color to connect with green jobs.
Out of Many Faiths: Religious Diversity and the American Promise
By Eboo Patel
An Ashoka Fellow since 2004, Eboo founded Interfaith Youth Core based on the idea that religion should be a bridge of cooperation rather than a barrier of division, helping people find common values to build a shared life together.
Dare to Matter: Your Path to Making a Difference Now
By Jordan Kassalow
An Ashoka Fellow since 2010, Jordan is extending affordable eye care to millions of people worldwide, enabling them to live healthy and productive lives. He founded VisionSpring.
Community Paralegals and the Pursuit of Justice
By Vivek Maru
An Ashoka Fellow since 2014, Vivek supports community paralegals (“barefoot lawyers”) worldwide so they can help their communities understand, use, and shape the law. Vivek founded Namati.
Other recent books by Fellows:
- Become America: Civic Sermons on Love, Responsibility, and Democracy, by Eric Liu
- Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair, by Danielle Sered
- Recess Rules, by Jill Vialet
- Real Belonging: Give Siblings Their Right to Reunite: Camp to Belong (25th Anniversary Edition), by Lynn Price
- The Age of Dignity: Preparing for the Elder Boom in a Changing America, by Ai-Jen Poo
- The Alternative: Most of what you believe about poverty is wrong, by Mauricio Lim Miller
- KaBOOM! How One Man Built a Movement to Save Play, by Darell Hammond
- Forked: A New Standard for American Dining, by Saru Jayaraman
