Investigative reporter Jerry Mitchell’s stories have helped put four Klansmen and a serial killer behind bars and helped free two people from death row. He is a Pulitzer Prize finalist and a winner of 30+ national awards, including a $500,000 MacArthur “genius” grant. His memoir, Race Against Time, details how the 1963 assassination of Medgar Evers, the 1963 bombing of a Birmingham church and the KKK’s 1964 murders of three civil rights workers came to be punished decades later. He helped found the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting at Mississippi Today, which is working with The New York Times, exposing allegations of sexual abuse, beatings and corruption by Mississippi sheriffs, including a 20-year reign of terror by the “Goon Squad,” which tortured suspects and sexually assaulted them. Six members are now in prison.