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Kimberlé Crenshaw is a pioneering scholar and writer on civil rights, Black feminist legal theory, and race, racism and the law.
She was a founder and has been a leader in the intellectual movement called Critical Race Theory, and is also known for
introducing and developing the concept of intersectionality. She is a Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of
California, Los Angeles, and the Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, and is the co-founder
and Executive Director of the African American Policy Forum. Crenshaw writes regularly for The New Republic, The Nation, and
Ms., has appeared as a commentator on media outlets including MSNBC and NPR, and hosts the podcast Intersectionality
Matters!