[Unedited] Bryan Stevenson with Krista Tippett

<p>How to embrace what’s right and corrective, redemptive and restorative — and an insistence that each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve done — these are gifts Bryan Stevenson offers with his life. He’s brought the language of mercy and redemption into American culture in recent years, growing out of his work as a lawyer to people unfairly on death row, people who are mentally ill and incarcerated, and children tried as adults. Krista draws out his spirit and his moral imagination.</p><p><strong>Bryan Stevenson</strong>  – is the founder and executive director of the <a href="https://eji.org/">Equal Justice Initiative</a> in Montgomery, Alabama and Aronson Family Professor of Criminal Justice at New York University School of Law. He is the author of <i>The New York Times</i> bestseller <a href="https://bookshop.org/books/just-mercy-a-story-of-justice-and-redemption/9780812984965"><i>Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption</i></a>.</p><p>This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode “Bryan Stevenson —Love is the Motive." <a href="https://onbeing.org/programs/bryan-stevenson-love-is-the-motive/#transcript">Find the transcript</a> for that show at onbeing.org.</p>