Michelle Alexander
Michelle Alexander, an associate professor of law at Ohio State University, worked in and around the criminal justice system for years–clerking for Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackman, and leading the ACLU of Northern California’s Racial Justice Project. Last year, she published The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, which has become the Bible of a social movement devoted to reducing the nation’s reliance on prisons, jails, and the criminal justice system in general. Alexander will be in the Bay Area next week, and in advance of her trip, phoned the Informant to talk about how the War on Drugs has devastated Black communities.
