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Kimberlé Crenshaw is distinguished professor of law at UCLA, a professor of law at Columbia Law School, and a co-founder and the executive director of the African American Policy Forum. She is a co-editor (with Neil T. Gotanda, Gary Peller, and Kendall Thomas) of Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement. Crenshaw lives in New York City and Los Angeles.<b>Praise for Kimberlé Crenshaw's <i>Critical Race Theory</i>:</b><br />“As of the publication of <i>Critical Race Theory</i> it will be unwise, if not impossible, to do any serious work on race without referencing this splendid collection.”<br /><strong>—Toni Morrison</strong><br /><br /><b>Praise for Kimberlé Crenshaw:</b><br />“Kimberlé Crenshaw belongs at the center of public conversation. . . . Imagine the world we might have if we all took a few moments to engage her ideas.”<br /><strong>—Melissa Harris-Perry, MSNBC</strong><br /><br />“Her name and her work [have] become an introductory point for feminists of all stripes.”<br /><strong>—<i>New Statesman</i></strong><br /><br />“Considering its recent prominence, it's surprising to realize that the term [intersectionality] has been around only since 1989: It was coined by legal scholar and critical theorist Kimberlé Crenshaw.”<br /><strong>—<i>The Washington Post</i></strong><br /><br />“The theorist who first coined intersectionality as a political framework.”<br /><strong>—<i>Salon</i></strong><br /><br />“It's now been over two decades since legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw wrote her original paper coining the term 'intersectionality' and mainstream feminism is still in the throes of a massive storm around it.”<br /><strong>—<i>The Guardian</i></strong><br />