New York, June 21, 2018 – Today The New York Times announced that Michelle Alexander will join the Opinion pages as a columnist in September.

James Bennet, New York Times editorial page editor, said, “Michelle is the author of “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness,” the book that changed the way many of us think about criminal justice and about the persistence and adaptation of forms of racial control in the United States. She is a powerful writer, a fierce advocate for a more just world and a deep believer in open-minded, searching debate over how to achieve it.”

Ms. Alexander is a civil rights lawyer, who has written for The Times, The Washington Post and The Nation, among other publications. She clerked for Abner Mikva on the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and Harry Blackmun on the Supreme Court. She has worked for private firms, litigating class-action suits for victims of race and gender discrimination, before becoming director of the Racial Justice Project for the ACLU of Northern California. She has taught at Stanford Law School and Ohio State, and is also a visiting professor at Union Theological Seminary.

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