Child Welfare

Author Talk: Andrew Bridge discusses The Child Catcher in conversation with Jill Duerr Berrick

December 5, 2024

Kicking off Berkeley Social Welfare's "Cultivating Community in Challenging Times Event Series" on October 1st, bestselling author Andrew Bridge sat down with with Jill Duerr Berrick, Distinguished Professor and the Zellerbach Family Foundation Professor of Social Welfare, about his newly released book The Child Catcher.

The Child Catcher is the true story of the fight to rescue the children confined to a violent and secretive institution in the rural South.

Andrew Bridge’s bestselling memoir, Hope’s Boy, told the story of his survival after being taken from his...