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Bryan Stevenson

Founder and Director
Equal Justice Initiative
Participates in 1 Session

Bryan Stevenson is a public-interest lawyer who has dedicated his career to helping the poor, the incarcerated and the condemned. He's the founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, an Alabama-based group that has won major legal challenges eliminating excessive and unfair sentencing, exonerating innocent prisoners on death row, confronting abuse of the incarcerated and the mentally ill, and aiding children prosecuted as adults.

EJI recently won an historic ruling in the U.S. Supreme Court holding that mandatory life-without-parole sentences for all children 17 or younger are unconstitutional. Mr. Stevenson’s work fighting poverty and challenging racial discrimination in the criminal justice system has won him numerous awards. He is a graduate of the Harvard Law School and the Harvard School of Government, and has been awarded 14 honorary doctorate degrees. Bryan is the author of Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption.


Sessions in which Bryan Stevenson participates

Tuesday 2 April, 2019

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
8:30 PM
8:30 PM
Bryan Stevenson
Participant
Equal Justice Initiative
Founder and Director