2013 Winner: Michelle Alexander
With great excitement, the Stowe Center announces Michelle Alexander as our 2013 Stowe Prize winner, author of The New Jim Crow: (New Press, 2010).
Michelle Alexander is a civil rights lawyer, advocate, and legal scholar. In 2005, she won a Soros Justice Fellowship which supported the writing of The New Jim Crow, and that 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. Ms. Alexander served as the Director of the Racial Justice Project for the ACLU of Northern California. She is a graduate of Stanford Law School and Vanderbilt University. Currently, Alexander is a Visiting Professor at Union Theological Seminary.
The Stowe Prize recognizes the author of a distinguished book of general adult fiction or nonfiction whose written work illuminates a critical social issue in the tradition of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin. The winning book applies informed inquiry, is accessible and engaging to a wide audience, and promotes empathy and understanding. In making this award, the Stowe Center recognizes the value of diversity to strengthen our communities.
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