After the screening, there will be a talkback with the film’s director and editor, Joy Davenport; Monica Land, executive producer and niece of Fannie Lou Hamer; and Kate Clifford Larson, bestselling author of the critically acclaimed biography Walk With Me: A Biography of Fannie Lou Hamer. The evening’s moderator is Thato R. Mwosa, an award-winning filmmaker, screenwriter, playwright, and illustrator.
Suffolk University - Modern Theatre
Eric Fisher
New England Aquarium
Matthew Quirk, author of The Night Agent, Pradeep Ramamurthy, a former FBI intelligence officer and senior director on the National Security Council at the White House, and Shawn Ryan, creator and showrunner of the Netflix series based on the book, and Mark Arsenault, Boston Globe reporter and author
John F. Kennedy Library
Stephanie Baker
Foley & Lardner LLP
Sasha Velour; moderator Giselle Byrd
Boston Public Library - Rabb Lecture Hall
Sugata Bose
Boston Public Library - Rabb Lecture Hall
PAUL HAWKEN is a bestselling author and leading voice calling for the regeneration of nature and humanity. He has authored nine books, including The Ecology of Commerce, Blessed Unrest, Regeneration. He is the founder of projects Drawdown and Regeneration, who consults with NGOs, governments, and corporations worldwide. He and his wife live in Northern California with coyotes, foxes, bobcats, ravens, flocks of red-tailed hawks, and pileated woodpeckers.
Virtual
After the screening, the film co-director Erin Trahan will be joined in conversation by Joan Vennochi, opinion columnist and associate editor, The Boston Globe and Juan Gallego, assistant deputy chief of staff to Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor Kim Driscoll in a conversation moderated by Rachael Cobb, associate professor, Political Science and Legal Studies Department, Suffolk University.
Suffolk University - Sargent Hall
Sarah Kauss
New England Aquarium
Bob Cordy needs little introduction in this venue —or in the world of Massachusetts jurisprudence. A former board member of Revolutionary Spaces, Bob served 16 years as an Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, our state’s highest court, and, notably, held the Court’s Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. seat during his tenure there. Until recently a partner at the law firm of McDermott, Will & Emery, Bob now sits in judgment of New Hampshire’s White Mountains. Richard “RJ” Lyman is a lawyer in Boston. He is also author of the new Substack newsletter “History, Looking Ahead,” which explores various aspects of the past in Boston, the Commonwealth, and beyond, with particular focus on their continuing relevance to the challenges and opportunities of today. He previously served as a senior advisor to former Massachusetts Governor Bill Weld and currently serves on various for-profit and nonprofit boards. For 20 years, he lived next to Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.’s summer house in Beverly Farms. Dr. Todd Peppers is a political science professor in the Department of Public Affairs at Roanoke College as well as a visiting professor of law at the Washington and Lee School of Law. He earned his undergraduate degree at Washington and Lee University, his JD at the University of Virginia School of Law, and his PhD in Political Science at Emory University. His areas of research and writing include the death penalty (he has co-authored three books on the topic) and Supreme Court history. His first play, Holmes, premiered in 2023. Dr. Peppers is currently working on a biography of Chief Justice Warren E. Burger. Ed O’Connell is the Civic Engagement Manager at Revolutionary Spaces. A lawyer by training, a civic education advocate by profession, and a Holmes devotee by ardent avocation, O’Connell is also responsible for overseeing the slate of public programs at Revolutionary Spaces.
Old South Meeting House
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