The New Jim Crow

Michel Alexander is a highly valued civil rights attorney, supporter and law scholar. In recent years, he has taught at many universities including Stanford University law school and is directing the civil rights right clinic as associate professor. In 2005, she received a Soros Judicial Scholarship supported by a scholarship, in the same year she accepted the co-appointment of the Kirwan Race and Ethnic Studies Association and Ohio State University Moritz Law School. Since its first publication, The New Jim Crow has been acclaimed and broadcasted nationwide on radio and television media such as MSNBC, NPR, Bill Moyers Journal, Tavis Smiley, C - SPAN and Washington Journal. In March, this book won the 2011 NAACP Best Nonfiction Award.

Prior to joining academia, Alexander served as Director of Racial Justice Program at ACLU in Northern California, where he coordinated media advocacy, grassroots organization, alliance formation, and litigation. The priority field of this project is fairness of education and criminal justice reform, and in the ACLU era, we began noticing that our criminal justice system is more like a caste system than crime prevention and control system It was. She reveals racial prejudice in the criminal justice system and began to be enthusiastic about challenging and finally a major campaign against racial profiling known as "DWB campaign" or "Promote black movement or Brownian movement" Started and led.

In addition to the advocacy of her nonprofit organization, Alexander also has a private law firm in Auckland, California, including Saperstein, Goldstein, Demchak & Baller, specializing in plaintiff group litigation, asserting racial discrimination and sexism I filed a lawsuit with.

Alexander graduated from Stanford Law School and Vanderbilt University. After graduating from law school, she served as a clerk of the US Supreme Court Judge Harry A. Blackmun and the US Court of Appeals, Abner Mikva's Supreme Court Court. She is currently talking about most of her time freelance, speaking in public, consultation with advocacy groups specializing in ending mass imprisonment, and most importantly, raising three children - in all It is the most rewarding thing. The most valuable work

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