Kimberlé Crenshaw

Kimberlé Crenshaw is a legal scholar and civil rights advocate who serves as co-founder and executive director of the African American Policy Forum, and founder and executive director of the Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies at Columbia Law School. She is a Promise Institute Professor at UCLA Law School and holds the Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher professorship at Columbia Law School. She developed the frameworks of intersectionality and Critical Race Theory, and co-created the #SayHerName campaign addressing police violence against Black women.