Kathleen Neal Cleaver Biography

Kathleen Neal Cleaver has spent most of her life advocating for human rights. Since 2000 she has served as the co-director of the Atlanta-based Human Rights Research Fund part of a network of anti-racist organizations engaged in documenting violations of the human rights of US citizens who challenge the racist and military policies within the United States. Cleaver is currently a senior lecturer in the African American Studies Department at Yale and holds an appointment as a senior lecturer and research fellow at Emory University School of Law.
Cleaver has been devoted to challenging racial injustice since she joined the faculty of Emory University Law School in 1992. She has worked to free imprisoned freedom fighters such as Geronimo ji-Jaga Pratt and Mumia Abu-Jamal. In 1993 she served on the Georgia Supreme Court Commission on Racial and Ethnic Bias in the Courts and became a board member of the Southern Center for Human Rights. She has taught as a visiting faculty member at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York the Graduate School of Yale University the University of Texas Law School and Sarah Lawrence College where she was the Joanne Woodward Professor of Public Policy in 1999. She has taught courses on pre-trial litigation professional ethics tort legal history and the US law of citizenship and race.

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