Description: Acclaimed social activist, filmmaker, and musician Justin Dillon---founder of Slavery Footprint and Made In A Free World---takes readers on a journey from sweatshops in India to punk rock concerts in Dublin to reveal that helping others is how we help ourselves.
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A professional musician turned filmmaker and social entrepreneur, Justin Dillon is founder and CEO of Made in a Free World, an award-winning platform that brings together consumers, organizations, and businesses to disrupt the $150 billion business of human trafficking. Justin's leadership as a "practitioner of change" has awakened a global movement of more than 30 million, improved laws, and freed thousands of slaves. He has advised the United Nations, the U.S. State Department, the White House, the Vatican, Fortune 500 companies, and more on issues of innovation and social justice. He is the director of influential films--with voices such as Cornel West, Questlove, Amber Valletta and Nicholas Kristof--including Call+Response and Common Dreams for CNN. Justin has been featured by the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, USA Today, Fast Company, Vogue, Huffington Post, CNN, CBS, FOX, MSNBC, NPR, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Rolling Stone, and more. His work has received many high-profile accolades including a Cannes Lion Award and a SXSW Interactive Innovation Award.Review Quotes: 'Dillon channels the heart cry of a generation who want to live lives of meaning and hope, but don't know how. With an artist's craft, he draws the reader in through stories of everyday people who have found a way to live their soul dream. He invites us to consider how in giving we will gain, and to join a global tribe of doers, not talkers.'--Jacqueline Fuller, president of Google.org and Google Foundation