Nell Bernstein in Conversation with Patrick Keenan-Devlin
Award-winning journalist Nell Bernstein will talk about her new book In Our Future We Are Free: The Dismantling of the Youth Prison in conversation with Patrick Keenan-Devlin, Executive Director & Youth Defense Attorney from Evanston's own Moran Center for Youth Advocacy.
A powerful grassroots movement is fighting back against state violence and has won closure of a remarkable 75% of youth prisons in the past decade. This story inspires hope for victory over abuses of power. How are they doing it? What lessons from this movement might we apply to other grassroots organizing?