Law professor honored as one of SoCal's Freedom's Sisters

Kimberlé Crenshaw, professor of law, was recently honored as one of Southern California’s Freedom’s Sisters in an exhibition at the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles. The Freedom's Sisters exhibition celebrated historic and contemporary women who have worked for freedom and equality for all Americans. Crenshaw was nominated for her work continuing the legacy and representing the values of 20 women leaders, including Harriet Tubman, Coretta Scott King and Rosa Parks.

 

Crenshaw joined the law faculty in 1986. She teaches courses on cvil rights, critical race studies and constitutional law. Her primary scholarly interests center on race and the law, and she was a founder and has been a leader in the intellectual movement called critical race theory.