When she served on JLUSA’s Founding Advisory Board, Michelle Alexander was a highly acclaimed civil rights lawyer, advocate, and legal scholar. She taught at a number of universities, including Stanford Law School, where she was an associate professor of law and directed the Civil Rights Clinics. In 2005, she won a Soros Justice Fellowship, which supported the writing of The New Jim Crow, and that same year she accepted a joint appointment at the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity and the Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State University. Since its first publication, The New Jim Crow has received rave reviews and has been featured in national radio and television media outlets, including MSNBC, NPR, Bill Moyers Journal, C-SPAN, and Washington Journal, among others. The book also won the 2011 NAACP Image Award for best nonfiction.