“American Injustice” An Evening with Bryan Stevenson

3/5/2019

C&C partnered with the other members of the Downtown Independent School Consortium to present “American Injustice” with Bryan Stevensonon February 20 at Friends Seminary. Stevenson is the founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, author of Just Mercy, and a professor at the NYU Law School. His Equal Justice Initiative is the founding organization of The Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration. 

Stevenson shared his four-step prescription for positive change: Stay close to people we want to help; change the narrative of problems we are trying to affect; stay hopeful, stating, “injustice prevails where hopelessness persists”; do things that are uncomfortable and inconvenient.

Parent Humera Afridi reflected on the evening: “Proximity to the disenfranchised; changing the narrative; the opposite of poverty is not wealth but justice, the power of human connection—so much to think about!” Millie Cartagena, City and Country Director of Community Life, Equity, and Inclusion, shared, “I left with renewed hope for the future!”