Company Profile

Company Description:

Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) is a non-profit law office and human rights organization
based in Montgomery, Alabama founded and led by Bryan Stevenson. We provide
legal assistance to condemned prisoners, children in the criminal justice system,
people wrongly convicted or sentenced, and the poor and vulnerable facing
imprisonment. We advocate for more hopeful solutions to the violence, powerlessness,
and despair plaguing many marginalized communities.

EJI has also launched an initiative on race and poverty that seeks meaningful solutions
to long-standing problems. This initiative aims to illustrate and facilitate engagement
with America’s history of racial injustice and its ties to contemporary inequality and
bias within the nation’s system of criminal law. EJI believes that understanding the
truth of three key historical eras in American history – enslavement, followed by racial
terror lynching, followed by violent and determined resistance to civil rights progress –is required to truly understand and combat the human rights challenges of our present
day.

In addition to ongoing litigation work, EJI opened two new historical sites in
Montgomery: The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, the nation’s first memorial
to the victims of racial terror lynching, and The Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to
Mass Incarceration. The formation of these sites and EJI’s narrative work have
attracted millions of people to engage further with our mission towards justice.