Tigermedia - Common Read: Co-author, Jennifer Thompson

Common Read: Co-author, Jennifer Thompson

Date: April 20th, 2016
Duration: 1h:20m:14s

Jennifer Thompson, co-author of this year's Common Read text, "Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption", will join us to speak about her experiences as a victim of both a brutal attack and a wrongful conviction. Jennifer will speak about the identification of Ronald Cotton as the man who attacked her, harming both Ronald and herself, and she will also speak about how she and Ronald became friends and how they wrote the book together. Their healing as a result of their friendship transcends the injustice of wrongful conviction, and Jennifer's strength offers testimony to the power of forgiveness.

Website: http://www.qcc.cuny.edu/commonread/