PREMIER EVENT: BRYAN STEVENSON

Credit: Nina Subin

Premier Event: Bryan Stevenson

Thursday, November 6, 7:30 p.m.

Just Mercy

 

Peninsula Arts & Letters is very excited to host Bryan Stevenson, winner of the MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Grant, who has won relief for dozens of condemned prisoners, argued five times before the Supreme Court, and won national acclaim for his work challenging bias against the poor and people of color.

Just Mercy is a true account of an idealistic young lawyer's coming of age, a moving window into the lives of those he has defended, and a clarion call to fix our broken system of justicefrom one of the most brilliant and influential lawyers of our time.

A 1985 graduate of Harvard, with both a Masters in Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government and a J.D. from the School of Law, Bryan Stevenson joined the clinical faculty at New York University School of Law in 1998.

Stevenson has been representing capital defendants and death row prisoners in the deep south since 1985 when he was a staff attorney with the Southern Center for Human Rights in Atlanta. Since 1989, he has been Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), a private, nonprofit law organization he founded that focuses on social justice and human rights in the context of criminal justice reform in the United States.

Click HERE to listen to his TED talks.

Here is an excellent interview with Jon Stewart of the Daily Show...

And a great review in New York Times...

And an op-ed by Nicholas Kristoff in last weekend's NYTimes...

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/12/opinion/sunday/nicholas-kristof-when-whites-just-dont-get-it-part-3.html  

Event date: 
Thursday, November 6, 2014 - 7:30pm
Event address: 
1010 El Camino Real
94025-4349 Menlo Park
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