Better, Not Bitter: Yusef Salaam

Yusef Salaam and Gilad Cohen

Better, Not Bitter: Yusef Salaam

Yusef Salaam and Gilad Cohen

6:00pm

Sunday, October 31, 2021

Dr. Yusef Salaam, member of the Exonerated Five, served six years and eight months in prison for a crime he did not commit. After he was exonerated of the infamous Central Park Jogger murder, Salaam became an award-winning motivational and transformational speaker, thought leader, trainer, New York Times bestselling author and coach. Join him, in conversation with Gilad Cohen, founder of JAYU, for a heart-wrenching yet inspirational conversation on prison reform and racial injustice, as he introduces his memoir, Better, Not Bitter: Living on Purpose in the Pursuit of Racial Justice.

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Dr. Yusef Salaam, member of the Exonerated Five, served six years and eight months in prison for a crime he did not commit. After he was exonerated of the infamous Central Park Jogger murder, Salaam became an award-winning motivational and transformational speaker, thought leader, trainer, New York Times bestselling author and coach. Join him, in conversation with Gilad Cohen, founder of JAYU, for a heart-wrenching yet inspirational conversation on prison reform and racial injustice, as he introduces his memoir, Better, Not Bitter: Living on Purpose in the Pursuit of Racial Justice.

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Yusef Salaam
Yusef Salaam is the inspirational speaker and prison abolitionist, who, at age fourteen was one of the five teenage boys wrongly convicted in the Central Park jogger case. In 1997, he left prison as an adult to a world he didn't fully recognize or understand and in 2002 he was exonerated for the crime he didn't commit. Yusef now travels the world as an inspirational speaker, advocate and educator on the impact of disenfranchisement, mass incarceration, police brutality and misconduct, press ethics and bias, race and law and the disparities in the criminal justice system, especially for men of color.

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Gilad Cohen
Gilad Cohen is an Israeli-Canadian Toronto-based artist, public speaker and advocate for human rights. Since 2008, Gilad has worked as a community mobilizer with a focus on connecting audiences to urgent and compelling stories through multimedia arts. In 2012, Gilad founded JAYU, an award-winning Toronto-based charity that serves the arts community through the annual Human Rights Film Festival, The Hum, a human rights podcast which he produces and co-hosts, as well as the iAM Program, an initiative that provides arts and social justice mentorship to 200+ equity-seeking youth from across the GTA each year

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