Website: newjimcrow.com/
Michelle
Alexander is a highly acclaimed civil rights lawyer, advocate, and legal
scholar. In recent years, she has taught at a number of universities, including
Stanford Law School, where she was an associate professor of law and directed
the Civil Rights Clinics. In 2005, she won a Soros Justice Fellowship, which
supported the writing of The New Jim Crow,
and that same year she accepted a joint appointment at the Kirwan Institute for
the Study of Race and Ethnicity and the Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State
University. Since its first publication,The
New Jim Crow has received rave reviews and has been featured
in national radio and television media outlets, including MSNBC, NPR, Bill
Moyers Journal, Tavis Smiley,
C-SPAN, and Washington Journal,
among others. In March, the book won the 2011 NAACP Image Award for best
nonfiction.
Prior to entering academia, Alexander served as the director of
the Racial Justice Project for the ACLU of Northern California, where she
coordinated the Project’s media advocacy, grassroots organizing, coalition
building, and litigation. The Project’s priority areas were educational equity
and criminal justice reform, and it was during those years at the ACLU that she
began to awaken to the reality that our nation’s criminal justice system
functions more like a caste system than a system of crime prevention or
control. She became passionate about exposing and challenging racial bias in
the criminal justice system, ultimately launching and leading a major campaign
against racial profiling by law enforcement known as the “DWB Campaign” or
“Driving While Black or Brown Campaign.”
In addition to her nonprofit advocacy experience, Alexander has
worked as a litigator at private law firms including Saperstein, Goldstein,
Demchak & Baller, in Oakland, California, where she specialized in
plaintiff-side class-action lawsuits alleging race and gender discrimination.
Alexander is a graduate of Stanford Law School and Vanderbilt
University. Following law school, she clerked for Justice Harry A. Blackmun on
the U.S. Supreme Court and for Chief Judge Abner Mikva on the U.S. Court of
Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. She currently devotes much of her time to
freelance writing; public speaking; consulting with advocacy organizations
committed to ending mass incarceration; and, most important, raising her three
young children—the most challenging and rewarding job of all.
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