Saturday, September 12, 2026 at 6:00 pm
Sanctuary, First Unitarian Church
4015 Normandy Ave, Dallas, TX, 75205
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Join us for a lecture and Q&A at 6:00 pm followed by a book signing at 7:00 pm.

First Unitarian Church of Dallas presents The Tom and Charley Crow Lecture with Brittany K. Barnett.

A nationally recognized attorney, author, and philanthropist, Brittany K. Barnett has spent her career proving that the impact of the criminal legal system should never define a person’s potential. Through post-conviction work, she has won freedom for more than 70 men and women serving unjust sentences—most of them life without parole—under federal drug laws, and is one of the few attorneys in the country to secure clemency for clients across multiple presidential administrations.

Her commitment is personal. As the daughter of a formerly incarcerated mother, Brittany knows firsthand how incarceration devastates families and entire communities. That understanding shapes everything she builds.

As founder and managing attorney of the Law Office of Brittany K. Barnett, she leads a practice spanning federal criminal defense, corporate, and entertainment law. She also advises entertainers and executives on business, reputational, and strategic matters. She is the founder of Manifest Freedom, which invests in entrepreneurs impacted by the criminal legal system, works to end extreme sentencing, and uses art and storytelling to change how the country sees justice. The organization houses the Buried Alive Project, which fights to free people serving life sentences for federal drug offenses, and through Girls Embracing Mothers, Brittany has supported thousands of women and girls impacted by maternal incarceration.

Brittany is the acclaimed author of A Knock at Midnight: A Story of Hope, Justice, and Freedom, named Amazon’s #1 Best Book of 2020, an NAACP Image Award nominee, and a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist. Her TED Talk has been viewed more than 1.7 million times, and her work has been featured on Hillary Clinton’s Gutsy, NPR’s Fresh Air, Good Morning America, CNN, and in The Washington Post, Essence, and The Atlantic. In 2025, she was named to Variety’s Dealmakers List.

The Tom and Charley Crow Lecture is presented in honor of the Crow brothers and their quest of truth as a sacrament and of knowledge in freedom. These lectures focus on rational dialogue, boldly exploring the most important core topics facing our nation, stressing logical, philosophical and sociological bases of positions, while both avoiding and exposing fallacies of fact and argument without rancor.