Episode 227: #FreeTheHair: Discussing The Crown Act with Wendy Greene
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As women of color, we should be proud of our crowns! It's time for the world to be proud too! This is exactly what Law Professor and Civil Rights Advocate, Wendy Greene, dedicates her life to combatting every day throughout her career.
As a way to reengineer Civil Rights advocacy, Wendy joins this episode to help us explore what forms of discrimination people of color may experience while in the workplace. Together, we discuss how the law identifies race while empowering women to live in their authentic selves.
About Professor Wendy Greene
The daughter of American civil rights activists, Professor Doris “Wendy” Greene is a trailblazing U.S. anti-discrimination law scholar, teacher, and advocate who has devoted her professional life’s work to advancing racial, color, and gender equity in workplaces and beyond. Professor Greene’s legal scholarship and public advocacy, which illuminate how constructions of identity inform and constrain anti-discrimination law, have generated civil rights protections for victims of discrimination throughout the United States. Through her award-winning publications and activism in these areas, Professor Greene crafted the legal blueprint for historic civil rights legislation known as the C.R.O.W.N. Acts (Creating a Respectful World for Natural Hair Acts) while also shaping the enforcement stance of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), federal courts, administrative law judges, and civil and human rights organizations in groundbreaking civil rights matters.
Professor Greene is the first tenured African American woman on the Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law faculty. Prior to joining the Drexel Law faculty, she was a faculty member at Samford University’s Cumberland School of Law (Birmingham, Alabama) from 2007-2012 where she was one of the youngest women of color to earn tenure and full professorship.
A native of Columbia, South Carolina, Professor Greene is a graduate of Xavier University of Louisiana (B.A. cum laude with Honors in English and a double-minor in African American Studies and Spanish); Tulane University School of Law (J.D.); and The George Washington University School of Law (LL.M.)
QUOTABLES:
“All individuals who are rocking natural hair styles have equal protection under the law.”
“Our civil rights laws don’t provide a definition for what race is.”
“Natural hair discrimination is race discrimination.”
“We want women to be comfortable expressing themselves in their most authentic way.”
How you can contact Professor Wendy Greene:
Instagram: @freethehairnow and @professsordwendy
Facebook: @FreeTheHairNow or Wendy Greene
Twitter: @professordwendy
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