Lunch With Tad Roach from the Equal Justice Initiative

As part of the Independent Learners Program (ILP), which involves researching a topic you find extremely passionate about, our group of about 10 students met together to discuss our initatives

If you are unaware, or even aware, of who Bryan Stevenson and the EJI is, I would reccomend looking at at least one of the following

• Watch Bryan Stevenson's TED Talk, We Need to Talk About an Injustice

• Explore the EJI website

  • Bryan Stevenson page

  • Hover over the OUR WORK tab at the top of the page to familiarize yourself with the breadth of their work.

  • The Exhausting Reality of Being a Black Lawyer - Bryan Stevenson's Truth (short clip from Katie Couric interview - Brian Stevenson on Why America Can't Move Forward)

    • The full 90 min interview with Katie Couric

At this discussion, each of the memebers of ILP shared what topic they were researching and thus, their most passionate topic. The meeting fostered interdisciplinary discussion between different fields, spanning from immigration to AI use, and involved connecting those topics back to the power of identity and narrative, the criminal justice system not being colorblind, the role of hope and conviction, and getting closer to those suffering injustice.

I enjoyed this discussion as it allowed me to gain insight into the progress of other fellow researchers and how they felt in relation to criminal justice and other general humanitarian issues.