Bryan Stevenson is the author of Just Mercy and the executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, the nonprofit that created the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama. Anthony C. Thompson is a professor and faculty director of the Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law at New York University School of Law. He is the author of Releasing Prisoners, Redeeming Communities and Dangerous Leaders, and editor of Raising the Bar: Diversifying Big Law (The New Press). He lives in New York. Loretta Lynch was the eighty-third attorney general of the United States and lives in Washington, DC. She is a co-author, with Sherrilyn Ifill, Bryan Stevenson, and Anthony C. Thompson, of A Perilous Path (The New Press). Sherrilyn Ifill is the president of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, based in Washington, DC, and is a co-author, with Loretta Lynch, Bryan Stevenson, and Anthony C. Thompson, of A Perilous Path (The New Press).
