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Nancy's Bookshelf: Brooks Thorlaksson, Bryan Stevenson, & Carissa Phelps

Bryan Stevenson

The first guest is retired Chico State English professor Brooks Thorlaksson who teaches a class on the Book in Common for Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. She discusses this year's selection, Just Mercy, by best selling author Bryan Stevenson. Attorney Stevenson founded the nonprofit Equal Justice Initiative committed to fighting poverty and challenging racial discrimination in the criminal justice system and is Nancy's second guest. The third guest is also an attorney and author. Carissa Phelps wrote Runaway Girl and is a survivor of human trafficking. She offers a free training seminar on human trafficking April 12 on the Chico State campus.    

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Nancy Wiegman has a master's degree in French linguistics from Indiana University and taught yoga and foreign languages at CSU Fresno and the College of Charleston before moving to Chico in 1990.