Exoneration, Education, Change: A Conversation with Yusef Salaam

The Center for Community Engaged Learning (CCEL), in partnership with the Office of the Chief Diversity Officer, invites you to a talk entitled Exoneration, Education, Change: A Conversation with Yusef Salaam.

In 1989, at the age of 15, Salaam was tried and convicted in the “Central Park jogger” case along with four other Black and Latinx young men, the so-called “Central Park 5.” After almost seven years behind bars for a crime he did not commit, his case was overturned and he was set free.

His life was forever changed by the experience, and since his release, he has advocated for criminal justice reform, prison reform, and the abolition of juvenile solitary confinement and capital punishment.

He recently released his memoir, Better, Not Bitter, detailing his journey in the face of injustice.

This conversation will be facilitated in collaboration with Anne Hoffman’s CCEL course, Incarceration: History, Literature, Film.