Michelle Alexander (author of The New Jim Crow ) about The Clintons

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2. Author is highly acclaimed civil rights lawyer/advocate/legal scholar.

Michelle Alexander is a highly acclaimed civil rights lawyer, advocate, and legal scholar. As an associate professor of law at Stanford Law School, she directed the Civil Rights Clinics and pursued a research agenda focused on the intersection of race and criminal justice. In 2005, Alexander won a Soros Justice Fellowship that supported the writing of The New Jim Crow and 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. Prior to joining academia, Alexander engaged in civil rights litigation in both the private and nonprofit sector, ultimately serving as the director of the Racial Justice Project for the ACLU of Northern California, where she helped lead a national campaign against racial profiling.

Alexander is a graduate of Stanford Law School and Vanderbilt University. She has clerked for Justice Harry A. Blackmun on the U.S. Supreme Court and for Chief Judge Abner Mikva on the D.C. Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals, and has appeared as a commentator on CNN and MSNBC, among other media outlets. The New Jim Crow is her fi rst book.
Awards
NAACP Image Award for best non-fiction; Constitutional Commentary Award; Emerson Award, Michael Harrington Best Book Award; 2010 Association for Humanist Sociology Book Award; silver medal in the 2010 Independent Publisher Book Awards: Current Events II (Social Issues/Public Affairs/Ecological/Humanitarian) category; Finalist, Silver Gavel Award; Finalist, Phi Beta Kappa; Finalist, Letitia Woods Brown Book Award

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