James Lawson Institute

The Change-Maker Fellowship is an academic-year leadership program through the James Lawson Institute for the Research and Study of Nonviolent Movements designed to equip undergraduate and graduate students with the knowledge, skills and grounding to create social change through nonviolent direct action. The JLI Change-Maker Fellows held their first… Read More

Before boarding a bus for a tour of historic Nashville Civil Rights sites, local community members met at Vanderbilt Divinity School to learn about the School’s history with Civil Rights leader Rev. James Lawson Jr. Director of the James Lawson Institute, Taure Brown, welcomed the participants before setting out on… Read More

Features Taure Brown, director of the James Lawson Institute at Vanderbilt Divinity School. Read More