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Topeka K. Sam to Receive Google’s Inaugural Social Impact Award for Work With Formerly Incarcerated Women

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Sasha Urban editorMay 5 means a lot to Topeka K. Sam. On that day in 2015, she was released from prison, and on May 5, 2022, she’ll be honored with Google’s inaugural Social Impact Award, for her efforts toward ending the poverty and incarceration of women and girls worldwide, at Variety’s 2022 Power of Women: New York event.“This is like a full circle moment for me, to be honored on 5-5,” Sam says. “It’s my seventh year home and seven is God’s perfect number.

It just feels like I have been fully redeemed.”When Sam was released, she sought out other women with experiences in the prison system, and quickly recognized the threads that connected them.She founded the Ladies of Hope Ministries in June 2017, and by October had opened Hope House NYC in the Bronx as a housing program that provides essential services to women fresh out of prison.

Since then, LOHM has launched projects in Maryland, Louisiana, Florida and California, offering career mentorship, tutoring and training for public speaking, writing legislation and even learning how to become a doula, plus addressing such basic needs as food insecurity.

While Sam has huge ambitions for LOHM, she says her number one priority is leveling the playing field for women like her to follow their own passions.Between 1980 and 2019, the number of incarcerated women rose by more than 700%, which is twice the rate of men, according to the Bureau of Justice.

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