Michelle Alexander

At-a-Glance

Author of *The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness* (2010), which won the 2011 NAACP Image Award for best non-fiction.
Opinion Columnist at The New York Times since 2018.
Served as director of the Racial Justice Project at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Northern California from 1998 to 2005.
Clerked for Justice Harry Blackmun on the U.S. Supreme Court and Chief Judge Abner Mikva on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
Earned a J.D. degree from Stanford Law School and a B.A. from Vanderbilt University.

Biography

Michelle Alexander is an American writer, attorney, and civil rights activist, widely recognized for her influential 2010 book, *The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness*. Since 2018, she has been an opinion columnist for The New York Times. Her work focuses on systemic racial discrimination and its impact on society, particularly through the lens of mass incarceration.

Alexander's legal career includes clerking for Justice Harry Blackmun on the U.S.