Dear Friends,
Join us TONIGHT at 7pm ET for UTB 51: Pre- Election Roundtable 2026! The conversation moderated by Executive Director Kimberlé Crenshaw features scholars Carol Anderson, Nancy MacLean, Jason Stanley, along with Katie Paris from Red, Wine & Blue, and April Albright from Black Voters Matter!
Ahead of midterms, our speakers will examine the critical issues defining the election and what you need to know before hitting the polls.
We will also hear directly how organizations on-the-ground, including AAPF’s Montgomery summit voting rights working group, are mobilizing to defend voting rights—and how you can get involved.
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IMKC x Elections 2026
Last week, podcast host Kimberlé Crenshaw sat down with anti-racist educator and senior fellow at AAPF, Tim Wise, as well as VP of Content at iOne Digital, Kirsten West Savali. They took listeners behind the headlines for a nuanced conversation about what’s at stake in the upcoming election, including important issues flying under the radar. Listen here.
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The African American Policy Forum
ABOUT THE MODERATOR AND HOST:
Kimberlé Crenshaw J.D. Harvard; L.L.M. University of Wisconsin; B.A. Cornell University) is founder and executive director of the African American Policy Forum. She is also Professor of Law at UCLA and Columbia Law School, and a leading authority in the area of Civil Rights, Black feminist legal theory, and race, racism and the law. Her articles have appeared in the Harvard Law Review, National Black Law Journal, Stanford Law Review and Southern California Law Review. She is the founding coordinator of the Critical Race Theory Workshop, and the co-editor of the volume, Critical Race Theory: Key Documents That Shaped the Movement. Crenshaw has lectured widely on race matters, addressing audiences across the country as well as in Europe, India, Africa and South America.
A specialist on race and gender equality, she has facilitated workshops for human rights activists in Brazil and in India, and for constitutional court judges in South Africa. Her groundbreaking work on “Intersectionality” has traveled globally and was influential in the drafting of the equality clause in the South African Constitution. Crenshaw authored the background paper on Race and Gender Discrimination for the United Nation’s World Conference on Racism, served as the Rapporteur for the conference’s Expert Group on Gender and Race Discrimination, and coordinated NGO efforts to ensure the inclusion of gender in the WCAR Conference Declaration.
Her work has been foundational in two fields of scholarly study that have come to be known by terms that she coined: Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality. Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw is the founder and executive director of the African American Policy Forum.
