Featuring: Janet Alder
Chair: Nikki Adebiyi
Level -1 Workshop Space (1 minute from Level 0)
Time: 1:30pm – 2:10pm
Join author and activist Janet Alder for a powerful conversation about her groundbreaking new book, Defiance — a fearless account of her decades-long fight for justice following the death of her brother, Christopher Alder, in police custody.
Christopher’s death in 1998 remains one of the most disturbing and revealing cases of institutional failure and state cover-up in modern British history. In Defiance, Janet exposes the systems that silenced the truth — and lays bare the personal cost of standing up to them.
In conversation with Nikki Adebiyi, Janet will speak about grief, resistance, and what it takes to keep fighting when the odds are stacked against you.
This is a story of courage, accountability — and refusing to be silent.
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