Amanda Alexander
Visiting Fellow, Center for Racial Justice, U-M Ford School of Public Policy
- Role
- Board Member at Center For Constitutional Rights
- Location
- Detroit, MI, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Amanda Alexander
Amanda Alexander, founding Executive Director of the Detroit Justice Center, is a racial justice lawyer and historian who works alongside community-based movements to end mass incarceration and build thriving and inclusive cities. Originally from Michigan, Amanda has worked at the intersection of racial justice and community development in Detroit, New York, and South Africa for more than two decades.Amanda is a Senior Research Scholar at University of Michigan Law School, where she has taught Law & Social Movements and directed the Prison & Family Justice Project (PFJP). She was a 20••••18 member of the Michigan Society of Fellows with appointments in Law and Afro-American & African Studies. As a Soros Justice Fellow, Amanda launched PFJP to provide legal representation to incarcerated parents and advocate for families divided by the prison and foster care systems. Amanda serves on the Michigan Joint Task Force on Jail and Pretrial Incarceration, appointed by Governor Gretchen Whitmer to develop ambitious and innovative strategies to reduce Michigan’s jail population. She has served on the national steering committee of Law for Black Lives, and is a board member of the Center for Constitutional Rights and the James and Grace Lee Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership.Amanda’s advocacy and research have won the support of an Echoing Green Fellowship, Fulbright-Hays Fellowship, Law for Black Lives/Movement Law Lab Legal Innovator Fellowship, Social Science Research Council Fellowship, Ford Foundation Doctoral Fellowship, and other fellowships and grants. She is the recipient of the NAACP-Detroit’s Great Expectations Award, the Muslim Anti-Racism Collaborative’s Racial Justice Cultivator Award, and the A. Philip Randolph Institute’s Community Builder Award.Amanda received her JD from Yale Law School, her PhD in international history from Columbia University, and her BA from Harvard College. Previously she has worked with the Detroit Center for Family Advocacy, the Bronx Defenders, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Housing in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and the Centre for Civil Society in Durban, South Africa. Her writing has been published in The Globe & Mail, Detroit Free Press, Michigan Journal of Race & Law, Harvard Journal of African-American Public Policy, and other publications.
Experience
Board Member
Center For Constitutional Rights
Jun 2018 — Present
Education
Columbia University
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), History
2006 — 2015
Yale Law School
Doctor of Law (J.D.)
2010 — 2013
Harvard University
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Government & African Studies
2000 — 2004
Skills
- Grant Writing
- Advocacy
- Editing
- Qualitative Research
- Economic Development
- History
- Sustainable Cities
- International Relations
- Nonprofits
- Research
- Prisoner Reentry
- Higher Education
- Community Outreach
- Community Development
- Criminal Justice
- Program Evaluation
- University Teaching
- Reproductive Justice
- Nonprofit Organizations
- Social Entrepreneurship
- International Development
- Community Organizing
- Program Development
- Politics
- Civil Rights
- Political Science
- Fundraising
- Family Law
- Social Justice
- Public Speaking
- Grants
- Policy
- Legal Research
- Prison Law
- Public Policy
- Human Rights
- Project Management
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