Notes from Home

"In Notes From Home, Jonna McKone takes us all with her and her eight traveling companions – formerly homeless or foster care youth – on a journey of exploration across the landscape of their individual lives, as each of them searches for the meaning of home. They draw, photograph, write, and remember, and along the way also manage to redefine what home means not only for themselves but for the rest of us as well. These are just the kinds of transformational stories and images we need to hear and see as our nation looks for ways to support young people who have fallen outside the safety net."

~Alex Harris, emeritus professor of the practice of documentary and public policy studies, Duke University

"These inspired and inspiring Notes From Home collectively offer a portrait of how art and beautiful storytelling can help overcome some of the most profound difficulties this country has to offer."

~Kaari Pitkin, former executive producer of WNYC's "Radio Rookies" and Senior Producer of "Caught: The Lives of Juvenile Justice"

"I met Jonna and the Price Family Fellows during a participatory documentary workshop I was facilitating in upstate New York. I was reminded that inserting one's own voice into the timeline of history like the young people in this book have done is too often a class privilege, yet a radical and necessary act for social change. We thank you for telling your truths."

~Brenda Ann Kenneally, founder of Upstate Girls and A Little Creative Class