Bryan Stevenson

Bryan A. Stevenson is the founder and Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative, a private, non-profit organization headquartered in Montgomery, Alabama, and is a professor at New York University School of Law. He has gained national acclaim for his work challenging bias against the poor and people of color in the criminal justice system. Stevenson has assisted in securing relief for dozens of condemned prisoners, advocated for poor people and developed community-based reform litigation aimed at improving the administration of criminal justice. A graduate of Eastern College (now Eastern University), Harvard Law School (J.D.), and the Harvard School of Government, he has won the American Bar Association's Wisdom Award for public...