Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw

Columbia University, UCLA, founder of African American Policy Forum

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Professor of Law at Columbia University and the University of California, Los Angeles, and the co-founding Executive Director of the African American Policy Forum, which is part of the Equal Rights Amendment Coalition

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