Michelle Alexander
Civil rights advocate and writer
Michelle Alexander is an American writer, attorney and civil rights advocate. She is best known for The New Jim Crow.
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American Born 1967 in United States, United States
About Michelle Alexander
Michelle Alexander was born in 1967 and is an American writer, attorney and civil rights activist. Her 2010 book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness is the work that made her name. Since 2018 she has written as an opinion columnist for the New York Times. Early in her career she clerked at the United States Supreme Court for Justice Harry Blackmun. She later directed the Racial Justice Project at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Northern California. That project led a national campaign against racial profiling. She received a Soros Justice Fellowship in 2005 and has also worked as a law professor at Ohio State University.