Career Highlights from African Americans Who Made Time’s 100 Most Influential People

Bryan Stevenson:

Stevenson is the founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, a nonprofit that focuses on improving the criminal justice system and race relations within our country. He also serves as a professor at New York University School of Law.

“It is Bryan’s belief that every person is more than the worst thing they’ve ever done, which is a lesson to so many that forgiveness is a necessary means to achieving equality for all,” wrote Serena Williams about Mr. Stevenson.