Alec Karakatsanis

Alec Karakatsanis is a lawyer, writer, and the founder and executive director of the nonprofit Civil Rights Corps.  He graduated from Yale College and Harvard Law School, and served as a deputy public defender in the District of Columbia.  His books are "Usual Cruelty: The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System" and the newly published "Copaganda", discussing how the news media's portrayal of crime narrows our perception of justice.  On April 28, 2025, Alec Karakatsanis came to the studios of KQED to talk to Lara Bazelon, a journalist and professor of law at the University of San Francisco.