TODAY: Social-justice activist, author Bryan Stevenson lecture, 7:30 p.m., Beasley

BRYAN STEVENSON, the author of this year’s Common Reading book, “Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption,” has been profiled as one of “Time” magazine’s “100 Most Influential People” of 2015, argued before the U.S. Supreme Court five times, and won relief for dozens of condemned prisoners.

This evening (Tuesday, Dec. 1) he is in Pullman to deliver the ninth

Common Reading Invited Lecture

at 7:30 p.m.

in Beasley Coliseum

The WSU community and the public are invited to this presentation, which will be followed by a book signing on the Beasley Concourse.

The founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, Mr. Stevenson grew up in southern Delaware, graduated from Eastern University, received a full scholarship to Harvard Law School, and attended Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. He has worked at the Southern Center for Human Rights, which represents death-row inmates throughout the South; raised funds to end the practice of incarcerating children in adult jails and prisons; is a professor of law at New York University Law School; and has won numerous awards.

The WSU Common Reading Program is the center for information and programming around topics contained in a single book used by thousands of students in classrooms and highlighted in extracurricular programming in residence halls, expert lectures, and events. Since the program began nine years ago, more than 30,000 WSU students have benefited from the academic discourse and resources associated with the selected books.

Co-sponsors of this Common Reading Invited Lecture are: the Global Campus; the School of Politics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs; the Dept. of Critical Culture, Gender, and Race Studies (CCGRS); the Pre-Law Resource Center; ASWSU; and Tri-State Outfitters.

 

 

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