Kimberle Williams Crenshaw, J.D.
Kimberle Williams Crenshaw, J.D., is a civil rights activist and a professor of law at UCLA and the Columbia University Law School. She is well known for her writings on civil rights, black feminist legal theory, and race, racism, and the law. Her work has appeared in the Harvard Law Review, National Black Law Journal, Stanford Law Review, and Southern California Law Review. A specialist in the area of race and gender equality, she is the founding coordinator of the Critical Race Theory Workshop, and the co-editor of Critical Race Theory: Key Documents That Shaped the Movement. In 1996, she co-founded the African-American Policy Forum to highlight the centrality of gender in racial justice discourses. A former contributor to MSNBC, she is a founding member of the Women's Media Initiative, and has lectured internationally on matters of race. Her many awards and honors include being named an ACLU Ira Glasser Racial Justice Fellow for 2005-2007, and the Lucy Terry Prince Unsung Heroine Award from the Lawyers Committee on Civil Rights Under Law.
She received her B.A. from Cornell and her J.D. from Harvard. At the University of Wisconsin Law School, where she received her LL.M., Professor Crenshaw was a William H. Hastie Fellow. She then clerked for Justice Shirley Abrahamson of the Wisconsin Supreme Court. |
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