Dr. Michelle Alexander - 7:00pm, Friday, June 21
DR. MICHELLE ALEXANDER is a highly acclaimed civil rights lawyer, advocate, legal scholar, and a former law clerk for Justice Harry Blackmun on the U.S. Supreme Court. She won a 2005 Soros Justice Fellowship and now holds a joint appointment at the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity and the Mortiz College of Law at Ohio State University. Alexander served for several years as director of the Racial Justice Project at the ACLU of Northern California, and subsequently directed the Civil Rights Clinics at Stanford Law School, where she was an associate professor. Her first book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, won the 42nd NAACP Image Award in 2011 for nonfiction and has been featured in national radio and television media outlets including The Bill Moyers Journal and The Tavis Smiley Show. Alexander has also appeared as a commentator on CNN, MSNBC, and NPR.
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