Not grown in a laboratory. Not manufactored in a boardroom. Grown from the ground of a life that was tested, broken, and rebuilt."
There is a knowledge that no university can confer and no credential can replicate. It grows only in one place in the lived experience of a human being who has been on the wrong side of every system, every table, every decision, and came back anyway.
THE HUMAN VERDICT™ carries that knowledge onto a stage and places it in front of the people whose decisions shape whether other human beings live with dignity or without it. May this wisdom performance help to heal the hole in humanity.
And here is where the tradition is asked to move. Those who came before staged the testimony. Civic Theater™ convenes the verdict. The witnesses are real and local. The evidence belongs to the city being visited. And when the proceeding ends, the audience does not applaud and disperse they carry a judgment out the door and deliberate it for the rest of their lives.
I did not write this from theory.
I wrote it from the inside of every system this performance puts on trial."
Tam Lawrence is not an observer of what happens when institutions fail human beings. She is its most qualified witness.
Award-winning journalist. Former State of Wisconsin Lobbyist. BET Comic View performer. Marquette University graduate. Founder & CEO of PIQSTAR INC., PBC. She has been on the wrong side of every table in that room. That is why she built the table.
