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Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Ira Glasser Racial Justice Fellow (02/23/2007)
Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw has been an Ira Glasser Racial Justice Fellow at the ACLU since February 2005; working primarily at the National Office. Crenshaw is a professor of law at Columbia and UCLA Law Schools. The groundbreaking work for which she is best known explores the many ways in which various forms of discriminations can intersect, creating special vulnerabilities for some that are not readily identifiable within traditional equality law. She coined the term "intersectionality" to highlight the overlapping vulnerabilities that are at play in shaping the life chances of some of society's most vulnerable populations: women who are poor, of color, or who are undocumented.

Statement: Jessica Gonzales at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (02/02/2007)

Custody and Control: Eye-Witness Account of Abuse in Juvenile Justice (11/29/2006)
Carrie Chalmers was a volunteer tutor at a New York state facility for girls, and relays her first-hand account of the educational, health and abuse crises happening at New York state facilities that were designed to rehabilitate juveniles, but instead seem to build and reinforce a criminal nature.

New Title IX Regulations Pose a Serious Threat to Civil Rights of Students (10/26/2006)

Custody and Control: A Former Inmate's Account of Abuse in Juvenile Justice (09/29/2006)
"Custody and Control" reports that "delinquent" young girls from backgrounds of intergenerational poverty. Juanita Crawford, 19, spent a year and a half at Lansing Correctional Facility.

Custody and Control: Summary and Key Recommendations (09/25/2006)
This report focuses on the two large facilities in which girls in New York state are confined, the Tryon and Lansing facilities, and concludes that, far too often, girls experience abuse and neglect, and are denied the mental health, educational, and other rehabilitative services they need.

Selden v. Livingston Parish School Board - Statement of Michelle Selden, plaintiff (08/02/2006)

Selden v. Livingston Parish School Board - Statement of Darren Selden, father of Michelle, plaintiff (08/02/2006)

Words From Prison - What You Can Do (06/14/2006)

Words From Prison: Abused at Home, Abused by the System; Girls and the Juvenile Justice System (06/12/2006)

Words From Prison: Women's Incarceration and Loss of Parental Rights (06/12/2006)

Words From Prison: Drug Policy, Race and Women's Incarceration (06/12/2006)