BPI’s 2015 Annual Dinner is May 7

Can we fix our failing juvenile justice system?

Join us for a conversation about some of our most pressing social justice issues with Hollywood producer turned juvenile justice advocate Scott Budnick, in conversation with award-winning author and documentarian Alex Kotlowitz.

Thursday, May 7
Reception 5:30
Dinner 6:30
Fairmont Chicago Millennium Park

Scott Budnick is the Founder and President of The Anti-Recidivism Coalition (ARC), an organization he created in 2013 to stem the flow of young people into the nation’s prisons and jails and improve life opportunities of the formerly incarcerated.

A well-known producer of some of Hollywood’s most successful movies, Scott’s career trajectory took an unexpected turn to juvenile justice activism inspired by his personal experience as a volunteer with InsideOUT Writers, a creative writing program in LA County’s juvenile halls. For his efforts to assist youth in the criminal justice system, Governor Jerry Brown named Scott California’s Volunteer of the Year for 2012.

Alex Kotlowitz wrote the national bestseller There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America and co-produced the Emmy-winning documentary, The Interrupters.  He’s taught at the University of Chicago and is currently a writer-in-residence at Northwestern University. A respected journalist and author, Alex is a recipient of the George Foster Peabody Award and George Polk Award.