Date and Time
Wednesday Feb 29, 2012
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM CST
February 29th, 2012 at 7:30pm.
Location
Lecture and book signing is located in the Riverview Ballroom, University Center of the University of Wisconsin River Falls.
Fees/Admission
All events in the Wyman Performing Arts and Lecture Series 2011-2012 are free and open to the public.
Contact Information
Office of Student Life, 715-425-4444
Description
Michelle Alexander is a longtime civil rights advocate and litigator. She holds a joint appointment at the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity and a position as an Associate Professor of Law at the Mortiz College of Law at Ohio State University. Alexander previously served as director of the Racial Justice Project at the ACLU of Northern California, director of the Civil Rights Clinics at Stanford Law School, and is a former law clerk for Justice Harry Blackmun on the U.S. Supreme Court. She has appeared as a featured commentator on CNN, MSNBC, and NPR. Join us for her engaging lecture and discussions surrounding topics from her first book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.
For more information or accommodations, please contact the Office of Student Life at 715-425-4444.