Bryan Stevenson

Bryan Stevenson is a widely acclaimed public interest lawyer. His work fighting poverty and challenging racial discrimination in the criminal justice system has won him numerous awards including the ABA Wisdom Award for Public Service, the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship Award Prize, the Olaf Palme International Prize, the ACLU National Medal Of Liberty, the National Public Interest Lawyer of the Year Award, the Gruber Prize for International Justice and the Ford Foundation Visionaries Award. He is a graduate of the Harvard Law School and the Harvard School of Government, has been awarded 16 honorary doctorate degrees, and is a Professor of Law at New York University School of Law. He is the recent author of the critically acclaimed New York Times bestseller, Just Mercy, which was named by Time Magazine as one of 2014's ten best nonfiction books and has been awarded several honors, including a 2015 NAACP Image Award.
Mr. Stevenson's TED talk, "We need to talk about an injustice" has been viewed more than 2 million times and is rumored to have received the "longest and loudest" ovation in the history of TED.
In his work on injustice and within the criminal justice system, Mr. Stevenson has identified four elements of social change, one of which inspired the creation of this community:
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References
* http://www.eji.org/who-we-are
* https://sashadichter.wordpress.com/2015/01/10/bryan-stevenson-proximity
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