Kenji Yoshino
Country
United States
Birth - Death
1969 -
Occupation
Academic
Description
Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law at NYU School of Law and the faculty director of the Meltzer Center for Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging. Kenji studied at Harvard, Oxford, and Yale Law School. His fields are constitutional law, antidiscrimination law, and law and literature. Author of his memoir 'Covering: The Hidden Assault On Our Civil Rights' (2006) and the book 'Say the Rigt thing: How to Talk About Identity, Diversity and Justice' (2023). Recipient of the American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel Award, the Peck Medal in Jurisprudence, and New York University’s Distinguished Teaching Award. Serves on the board of the Brennan Center for Justice, advisory boards for diversity and inclusion at Charter Communications and Morgan Stanley, and on the board of his children’s school.