Kimberlé Crenshaw
Distinguished Professor of Law and Promise Institute Chair in Human Rights, UCLA School of Law; Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
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Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw is a professor of law at Columbia and UCLA and is a leading authority on civil rights, Black feminist legal theory, Critical Race Theory, and race, racism, and the law. She is a widely cited scholar whose groundbreaking work on intersectionality, a term she coined, has traveled globally. As an activist she launched the #SayHerName campaign, which brought attention to Black women killed by police violence, and she is the executive director of the African American Policy Forum, a gender and racial justice legal think tank, and of the Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies at Columbia Law School.
