Sheryll Cashin — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Law, Civil Rights and Social Justice at Georgetown University Law Center.
Author of five books, including "White Space, Black ‘Hood" (2021) and "Loving: Interracial Intimacy in America" (2017).
Her book "Place Not Race" (2014) was nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Non-Fiction in 2015.
Serves on the board of the Poverty and Race Research Action Council.
Served as an advisor on urban and economic policy in the Clinton White House.
Graduated summa cum laude from Vanderbilt University (1984) and obtained a masters from St Catherine's College, Oxford (1986) as a Marshall Scholar.
Obtained her J.D. with honors from Harvard Law School (1989).

Biography

Sheryll Cashin is the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Law, Civil Rights and Social Justice at Georgetown University Law Center. Born and raised in Huntsville, Alabama, her parents' activism in the civil rights movement, including her mother's arrest during a sit-in protest and her father's challenge to George Wallace in the 1970 Alabama gubernatorial election, profoundly influenced her focus on racial issues, segregation, and inequality.