Bryan Stevenson

Bryan Stevenson is the founder and Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative, a human rights organization in Montgomery, Alabama. A graduate of Harvard Law School, Stevenson also led the creation of two highly acclaimed cultural sites which opened in Montgomery in 2018: the Legacy Museum and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice. He has been named a MacArthur Fellow and recognized by Time magazine as one of "The 100 Most Influential People." The legal drama Just Mercy was based...See more

Bryan Stevenson is the founder and Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative, a human rights organization in Montgomery, Alabama. A graduate of Harvard Law School, Stevenson also led the creation of two highly acclaimed cultural sites which opened in Montgomery in 2018: the Legacy Museum and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice. He has been named a MacArthur Fellow and recognized by Time magazine as one of "The 100 Most Influential People." The legal drama Just Mercy was based on his memoir by that name. See less