Name: Bryan Stevenson: A Conversation on Social Justice
Start: 2025-11-17T19:30:00-06:00
Location: Paramount Theatre

The Paramount Theatre & Tejemos Foundation present
Bryan Stevenson: A CONVERSATION ON SOCIAL JUSTICE
With pre-show music by Huston-Tillotson Jazz Band
The Paramount Theatre
Wednesday, November 17, 2025

Presented by Paramount Theatre and Tejemos Foundation
In partnership with ACLU Texas, Ann Richards School for Young Women Leaders, Huston-Tillotson University, Life Anew Restorative Justice, Texas Civil Rights Project. Special Thanks to Black Pearl Bookstore & Rambler Sparkling Water for their support!
Doors & Music: 6:30pm
Show: 7:30pm
About the Event
Join us for an inspiring presentation by Bryan Stevenson, founder of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama and author of Just Mercy. This is one of two powerful community engagement events this fall that uplift themes of justice and civil rights.
Paramount Theatre and Tejemos Foundation will also present a screening of Just Mercy at the State Theatre on September 25, 2025. This film us a story of justice and redemption, based on Stevenson's book, starring Michael B. Jordan and Jamie Foxx.
For more info and tickets to the Just Mercy screening, click here.
Both events are presented with support from the Tejemos Foundation and are in proud partnership with ACLU Texas, Ann Richards School for Young Women Leaders, Huston-Tillotson University, Life Anew Restorative Justice, Texas Civil Rights Project, Black Pearl Bookstore, and Rambler Sparkling Water. These events will support broad access for area nonprofits, students, and the greater Austin community.
In recent years, the Paramount Theatre and Tejemos Foundation partnered to bring Gloria Steinem, Margaret Atwood, and Angela Davis to Austin with half of the auditoriums reserved for community groups. They were unforgettable evenings that inspired the ongoing iteration of this event.
“We seek to bring communities together in the name of truth, justice, diversity and women's empowerment” said Lynne Dobson, co-founder of the Tejemos Foundation.
About the Tejemos Foundation
Based in Austin, Texas, the Tejemos Foundation is dedicated to strengthening communities through strategic support in education, the musical and theatrical arts, parks and trails, constitutional freedoms, public radio, journalism, healthcare and food and housing security. Established in 2020 by Lynne Dobson and Greg Wooldridge, who have a combined 50-years in journalism and photojournalism, the foundation seeks to cultivate compassion, creativity, truth, equity and justice in their communities.
About Bryan Stevenson
Mr. Stevenson has argued and won multiple cases at the United States Supreme Court, including a 2019 ruling protecting condemned prisoners who suffer from dementia and a landmark 2012 ruling that banned mandatory life-imprisonment-without-parole sentences for all children 17 or younger. Mr. Stevenson and his staff have won reversals, relief, or release from prison for over 140 wrongly condemned prisoners on death row and won relief for hundreds of others wrongly convicted or unfairly sentenced.
Mr. Stevenson has initiated major new anti-poverty and anti-discrimination efforts that challenge inequality in America. He led the creation of EJI’s highly acclaimed Legacy Sites, including the Legacy Museum, the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, and Freedom Monument Sculpture Park. These new national landmark institutions chronicle the legacy of slavery, lynching, and racial segregation, and the connection to mass incarceration and contemporary issues of racial bias.