She is a visiting professor at Union Theological Seminary in New York City, where she is exploring the moral and spiritual dimensions of mass incarceration. She served as a Soros justice fellow in 2005 and was appointed a senior fellow at the Ford Foundation in 2015. Alexander has served as a professor at several universities, including Stanford Law School, where she was an associate professor of law and directed the civil rights clinics, and Ohio State University, where she held a joint appointment with the Moritz College of Law and the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity. She has been featured on national radio and television media outlets, including CNN, MSNBC, NPR, MSNBC, C-Span and “Democracy Now.” Lawyer and activist Michelle Alexander offers a stunning account of the rebirth of a caste-like system in the United States, one that has resulted in millions of African Americans locked behind bars and then relegated to a permanent second-class status, denied the very rights supposedly won in the Civil Rights. She has written for numerous publications, including The Washington Post, The Nation, The Los Angeles Times and HuffPost. Michelle Alexander is a civil rights lawyer and advocate, a legal scholar and the author of the New York Times best seller “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.” The book helped to start a national debate about the crisis of mass incarceration in the United States and inspired racial-justice organizing and advocacy efforts nationwide.
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