Kimberlé Crenshaw, a number one authority on civil rights and Black feminist authorized thought and the power behind the #SayHerName marketing campaign which calls consideration to police violence in opposition to Black girls, shares the traits that she believes have contributed to her total success, together with being observant, ready and a vital thinker and her ideas on privilege and combating authority. The Columbia and UCLA Regulation Faculty professor, who initially coined the time period intersectionality, credit her “not having the ability to be silent and insisting on saying my peace” as having probably the most important influence on her life.

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