Bryan Stevenson with Liliana Segura, 15 January 2014 – Audio

Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on January 15, 2014.

Bryan Stevenson is a lawyer and the Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative, headquartered in Montgomery, Alabama. His work focuses on race relations, social policy, and the prison industrial system. He spoke on the 85th birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The talk was followed by a conversation with Liliana Segura.

This event was part of the Lannan In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom series.

Bryan Stevenson is the founder and Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), a nonprofit organization headquartered in Montgomery, Alabama, and a professor at New York University School of Law. He has gained national acclaim for his work challenging the U.S. legal system’s biases against the incarcerated, the poor, and people of color. EJI recently won a historic ruling in the U.S. Supreme Court holding that mandatory life imprisonment without parole sentences for children 17 years or younger is unconstitutional. He has been awarded the ACLU National Medal of Liberty, the National Public Interest Lawyer of the Year Award, and the NAACP Ming Award for Advocacy for his work.

Additional photos of this event are available on Flickr.