Michelle Alexander
About the Author
Michelle Alexander is a civil rights lawyer, advocate, and legal scholar and the bestselling author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, which helped to transform the national debate on racial and criminal justice. The book won numerous honors including an NAACP Image Award. Alexander has been featured in media outlets like MSNBC, NPR, CNN, The Colbert Show, Real Time with Bill Maher, and Democracy Now!. She has taught at Stanford Law School and The Ohio State University’s Moritz College of Law. Currently, she is a visiting professor at Union Theological Seminary.
