AAPF welcomes Leda K. DeRose as our new Associate Director. Originally from Meriden, Connecticut, Leda graduated from Barnard College, where she received a Bachelor’s degree in Urban Studies with a concentration in Political Science. While at Barnard, Leda excelled academically, earning the distinction of magna cum laude. Her senior thesis, entitled “Youth Voices on Lockdown: [...]
While the day-to-day administration of the work of the Policy Forum is undertaken by full-time and part-time staff under the direction of our Executive and Program Directors, we rely on a community of exceptionally creative thought leaders and writers from both the academy and civil society to help us advance our work. We meet with [...]
Excerpt from Thomas Jefferson School of Law news: “Intersectionality” is a term that may have been new to many of the people who attended the 10th Annual Women and the Law Conference at Thomas Jefferson School of Law on Friday, April 30, but now they have a much better grasp of this significant legal concept. [...]
April 5, 2010 ASU, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Danielle Legler Excerpt: Kimberlé Crenshaw, co-founder of the African American Policy Forum and a leading authority in the areas of civil rights and the politics of race, brings her perspective to Arizona State University April 8 for the 15th anniversary A. Wade Smith Memorial Lecture [...]
The Dartmouth MLK speaker highlights a ‘non-racial’ America By Ryan King January 19, 2010 Excerpt: Decades after the civil rights movement, Martin Luther King Jr.’s sense of the “fierce urgency of now” when combatting racial inequality remains necessary and prevalent, according to Kimberle Williams Crenshaw. A University of California at Los Angeles law professor and [...]
