Bryan Stevenson worked as public interest lawyer, overturning wrongful convictions on death row. He also founded the Equal Justice Initiative and authored the award-winning novel, Just Mercy. He has won the ABA Wisdom Award for Public Service, 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 Gruber Prize for International Justice and the Ford Foundation Visionaries Award.
His talk begins at 7pm on Tuesday, September 12th, in the O'Donnell Auditorium in the Rogers Center for Fine Arts at Nebraska Wesleyan University (50th and Huntington), with a book-signing afterwards. Wesleyan has graciously opened the event to the public starting at 6:30pm. However, seating is limited so they recommend that you get there early.
Here is a link to the event page: https://www.nebrwesleyan.edu/node/411364
Here is a link to Just Mercy: https://www.amazon.com/Just-Mercy-Story-Justice-Redemption/dp/081298496X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1504752224&sr=8-1&keywords=just+mercy
If you can't make it to the talk but are interested in what he has to say, here is a link to a podcast about Bryan Stevenson and Just Mercy: http://thisiscriminal.com/episode-45-just-mercy-6-17-2016/.