TED Week
Once a year, TED comes to the UCLA Anderson School of Management’s campus.
TED Week at UCLA Anderson is a weeklong program that engages students, faculty and alumni around ideas explored at TED Conference. The event includes live streaming of TED Conference talks, panel discussions and workshops. The week culminates with a Campfire event featuring student and faculty TED talks. The diversity and breadth of topics reflects the depth of imagination and individuality at UCLA Anderson.’ Each year three students are selected to speak at the Campfire. Reza was one of these speakers in April 2014. This marked the first time Reza spoke publicly about his story or publicly on justice.
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My 665 days in prison
This is the story of my wrongful imprisonment, the very first attempt to talk about it publicly at TED. In 2014 I spoke at TED Week at UCLA Anderson to raise questions about the of injustice that directly… Continue reading
13 members of congress and a senator each wrote individual letters, as well as a group letter, directly to the President to express their support for me and to highlight this case and urge the President to act on my pardon application.
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