Taifha Natalee Alexander is the CRT Forward Project Director at UCLA School of Law’s Critical Race Studies Program. Her legal research is at the intersection of law, critical race studies, higher education, social justice and equity. Alexander’s recent works include “We Can’t Breathe: How Top Law Schools Can Resuscitate an Inclusive Climate,” published in the Georgetown Journal of Modern Critical Race Perspectives, and “Chopped & Screwed: Hip-Hop from Cultural Expression to Criminal Enforcement,” published in the Harvard Journal of Sports and Entertainment Law. Alexander’s groundbreaking work has garnered recognition in NPR, LAist, The New York Times, NBC, The Guardian, TIME, Associated Press, The Chicago Tribune and other local and national outlets.

As an award-winning expert in diversity, equity and inclusion within higher education, she possesses over a decade of experience in fostering transformative principles at colleges and universities nationwide. Her recent book chapter in “Revising the Curriculum and Co-Curriculum to Engage Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” (2023) outlines the path to cultivating an antiracist college. Alexander is an honors graduate of St. John’s University, Georgetown University Law Center and UCLA School of Law. She teaches Race, Slavery, and Law at the USC Gould School of Law.