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Bryan Stevenson talks about his new book "Just Mercy"
Thursday, November 6, 7:30pm - Doors open at 6:30pm Kepler's Books 1010 El Camino Real Menlo Park, CA 94025
Some tickets are available at the door!
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.
Listen to his TED talks: http://www.ted.com/speakers/bryan_stevenson
Ticket Information:
$40.00 -- Premier Ticket. Includes 1 copy of "Just Mercy", premier seating, and priority in the signing line. $20.00 -- General Admission. Does not include book. $10.00 -- Student Ticket.
The book will be available for sale and pickup at the event.
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LocationKepler's Books (View)
1010 El Camino Real
Menlo Park, CA 94025
United States
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