Mark your calendar for this Book Talk
Join Elizabeth Vartkessian to discuss her new book, The Deserving, and the role we all play in creating a more humane and just world. Founder and director of the nonprofit mitigation team Advancing Real Change, Inc., Dr. Vartkessian works with criminal defense teams as a mitigation specialist. She isn’t part of the Innocence Project; her clients are often legally guilty of terrible crimes. Rather, her job is to spend many hours per case talking to a defendant’s parents, siblings, teachers, and neighbors, situating the defendant’s crimes in context. Vartkessian weaves powerful, gripping stories from her extraordinary career into an inspiring argument for dignity in American justice.
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Sponsored by St. Mark’s and the Capitol Hill Incarceration Group.