Thank you for taking the time to make “On Stage and Beyond” possible. It was a stimulating conversation begun of equity within our society.

What I gathered from our brief discussion and classroom conversations is that regardless of an individual’s background we may all live in prisons. That is prisons of perceptions. What we as society need to do is build bridges between our diversities through experience. Experience may come vicariously thorough the arts or in the U.S. jury system to begin to build bridges between perceptions and realities.

The way I came into tonight’s program was how I left: ambiguous about the U.S. jury system with a ‘minor’ difference. That difference is I have gained a real sense though the panel that there is good in the mist of an imperfect system. Improvement in our U.S. jury system begins with education. Thank you for your efforts to improve the U.S. jury system and our society though the arts. Bushnell!