HYBRID: Live Man Walking: What do we do with the guilty?

Wednesday, April 23, 2025 - 5:30pm to 6:30pm

Join death row investigator and author Rene Denfeld as she discusses the devastating impact of mass incarceration in Oregon. How do we fix the damage that has been done, and what do we do about people who break the law? There will be time for an audience Q and A.

Rene Denfeld is a licensed investigator who has worked hundreds of cases, including death row exonerations and helping rape trafficking victims. The past Chief Investigator at a public defense firm, she won the Break the Silence Award in 2017 and was named a Hero of the Year by the New York Times. Her novels, influenced by her justice work, have won numerous prestigious awards, including a French Prix (the French version of the Pulitzer), a Carnegie listing, an IMPAC listing, and more. Margaret Atwood has termed her writing "astonishing." She is the happy mother to kids from foster care and lives in Portland. Her novels include The Enchanted, The Child Finder, The Butterfly Girl and Sleeping Giants.

A livestream will also be available at https://www.youtube.com/@LakeOLib/streams(link is external).

For more information contact Nancy Niland at nniland@lakeoswego.city or (503) 675-2538