"Exit Wounds": A Conversation with Mass Book Award-Honoree Ieva Jusionyte
Schedule
Thu, 12 Mar, 2026 at 06:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
71 8th St, New Bedford, MA, United States, Massachusetts 02740 | New Bedford, MA
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“Exit Wounds”: A Conversation with Ieva JusionyteThursday, March 12, at 6pm , during AHA! night.
First Unitarian Church in New Bedford
71 8th St.
New Bedford, MA 02740
As part of New Bedford’s monthly AHA! Night, the First Unitarian Church is honored to welcome author Ieva Jusionyte for a conversation about her recent book, Exit Wounds: How America’s Guns Fuel Violence Across the Border, a Massachusetts Book Awards Nonfiction Honors title. The evening will include a talk about her research and findings, followed by an audience Q&A and book signing.
Exit Wounds illuminates a major under-reported cause of the violence and corruption plaguing Mexico: the steady flow of U.S. weapons and ammunition across the border. Jusionyte follows the bullets, the stories, and the money, weaving chilling statistics into a gripping narrative. Through interviews with U.S. federal agents, Mexican arms smugglers, and even an ex-cartel assassin, she reveals the staggering human toll that a lucrative American industry inflicts on communities in Mexico. Braiding these stories together with clarity and journalistic verve, Jusionyte exposes a devastating and deeply entrenched cycle.
This program is sponsored by the Mass Book Awards Speakers Bureau and is presented in collaboration with the Massachusetts Center for the Book.
IEVA JUSIONYTE is an award-winning author, legal anthropologist, and a recipient of MacArthur “Genius” Award. She is the Watson Family University Professor of International Security and Anthropology and Director of the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies at Brown University. Born and raised in Lithuania, Jusionyte earned her B.A. degree in political science from Vilnius University and her M.A. and Ph.D. in anthropology from Brandeis University. Jusionyte studies borders, law, and violence, and is the author of three books; her newest book, Exit Wounds: How America’s Guns Fuel Violence Across the Border, won the Juan E. Méndez Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America, PROSE Award for Excellence in Social Sciences and R.R Hawkins Award from the Association of American Publishers, and Nonfiction Honors in the Massachusetts Book Awards. Apart from her scholarly pursuits, Jusionyte is a trained EMT, paramedic, and wildland firefighter, and she spent five years volunteering in fire and rescue departments in Massachusetts, Florida, and Arizona. She lives in Boston.
This event is FREE and open to the public. Please enter through the Union Street doors. If you need the elevator, please enter through the parking lot doors.
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