Bryan Stevenson
Mr. Stevenson is a widely acclaimed
public interest lawyer who has dedicated his career to helping the poor,
the incarcerated and the condemned. Under his leadership, EJI has won
major legal challenges eliminating excessive and unfair sentencing,
exonerating innocent death row prisoners, confronting abuse of the
incarcerated and the mentally ill and aiding children prosecuted as
adults, recently succeeded in winning a ban on life imprisonment without
parole sentences imposed on children convicted of most crimes in the
U.S. and has initiated major new anti-poverty and anti-discrimination
efforts. His work fighting poverty and challenging racial discrimination
in the criminal justice system has won him awards including 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 NAACP Ming Award for
Advocacy, and the Ford Foundation Visionaries Award. He is a graduate
of the Harvard Law School and the Harvard School of Government, and is
also a Professor of Law at the New York University School of Law.