Susan Burton at Bookends & Beginnings
June 26, 2017
- 6:00 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
Bookends & Beginnings
1712 Sherman Ave, Alley #1,
Evanston IL

Susan Burton, author of Becoming Ms Burton: From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women, will be at Bookends & Beginnings for a book talk, with Leonard Goodman, a Chicago criminal defense lawyer. He has won awards for his work on behalf of the wrongfully convicted, including an Afghani man detained twelve years at Guantanamo Bay without charges before his release in December 2014. He is an adjunct professor at DePaul University College of Law, where he teaches federal criminal law, and is a member of the Advisory Board of the Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern University College of Law. Goodman also founded the Leonard C. Goodman Institute for Investigative Reporting