UConn Hartford partnered with the Dodd Center to offer a private screening of Just Mercy, a film based on the powerful and inspiring true story of Bryan Stevenson and his historic battle for justice. After graduating from Harvard with a law degree, Stevenson decided to dedicate his career to defending incarcerated individuals who were not afforded their right to proper representation or fair trial. To do so, he moved to Montgomery, Alabama, where he founded the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), a human rights organization whose efforts have exonerated or reprieved hundreds of wrongly convicted or unfairly sentenced individuals. Less than a month before the screening, Stevenson visited UConn to receive the prestigious 2019 Thomas J. Dodd Prize in International Justice. Just Mercy stars Michael B. Jordan and Oscar winners Jamie Foxx and Brie Larson and will be in theaters world-wide on Jan. 10, 2020. You can also purchase Stevenson’s book, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption.