Reconciliation Symposium

Schedule

Mon Feb 28 2022 at 07:00 pm to Tue Mar 01 2022 at 10:00 pm

Location

Baylor University | Waco, TX

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Reconciliation Symposium with Mark Osler, Jeanne Bishop and Anthony Graves.
About this Event

2022 Symposium: Forgiveness, Reconciliation and Reform of the Criminal Justice System

Featuring Mark Osler, Jeanne Bishop and Anthony Graves.

Feb. 28 and March 1 at Baylor University

Monday Feb. 28

3:30 p.m. Panel Featuring Graves, Osler & Bishop: Cashion 506

5:30 p.m. Keynote: Anthony Graves, Bennett Auditorium


Tuesday, March 1

12:15 p.m. VIP Luncheon Featuring Jeanne Bishop: Cashion 506

3:30 p.m. Panel Featuring Graves, Osler & Bishop: Cashion 506

5:30 p.m. Keynote: Mark Osler, Bennett Auditorium


Bios

Jeanne Bishop

Jeanne Bishop is a public defender, human rights advocate, writer, speaker, teacher and acclaimed author of Change of Heart: Justice, Mercy, & Making Peace With My Sister's Killer and Grace From The Rubble. Since the 1990 murders of her sister Nancy Bishop Langert, her husband and their unborn baby, she began advocating for mercy and reform of the criminal justice system and was opposed to the death penalty following their murders. Bishop frequently writes from the perspective of her Christian faith. She has written for the Huffington Post and CNN.com, the Chicago Tribune and or the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life publication Religion and the Death Penalty: A Call for Reckoning.


Anthony Graves

Graves is the 138th exonerated death row inmate in America and author of Infinite Hope: How Wrongful Conviction, Solitary Confinement, and 12 Years on Death Row Failed to K*ll My Soul (2018). With no record of violence, he was arrested at 26 years old, wrongfully convicted, and incarcerated for 18 years before finally being exonerated and released. Today, Graves serves as an advocate for rebuilding the criminal justice system entirely to fit the needs of all people. He has told his story around the world in hopes of fostering change. He helps victims of the criminal justice system have a voice through his foundation, speakers bureau at Texas Southern University, and collaborations with the Thurgood Marshall School of Law and the ACLU.


Mark William Osler

Robert and Marion Short Chair, Professor of Law, University of St. Thomas. Mark Osler teaches at the University of St. Thomas (MN). His work advocates for sentencing and clemency policies rooted in principles of human dignity. In 2013, he was awarded the Outstanding Teaching award by his school, and in 2015 the same award for his scholarship. Osler's writing on clemency, sentencing, and narcotics policy has appeared in the New York Times and Washington Post, and has or will be published in law journals at Harvard, Stanford, Rutgers, Northwestern, Wayne State, DePaul, and the University of Chicago.


Sponsored by the Baylor Department of Journalism, Public Relations & New Media in conjunction with:

Baylor College of Arts & Sciences

Baylor Office of the Provost

Baylor School of Social Work

Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion

Baylor Multicultural Affairs

Baylor National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ)


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Baylor University, 1311 South 5th Street, Waco, United States

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