Dr. Amanda Alexander

As a racial justice lawyer, historian, organizer, and writer, Dr. Amanda Alexander has dedicated her career to building the power of community-based movements for social change. She is the founder and former Executive Director of the Detroit Justice Center (DJC), a movement lawyering organization working to create economic opportunities, transform the legal system, and promote equitable and just cities. While leading DJC, Amanda co-hosted and co-produced Freedom Dreams, an interview podcast that amplifies movement voices and explores the many paths to building a truly just future. Amanda is a board member of the Center for Constitutional Rights and has served on the national steering committee of Law for Black Lives and the board of the James & Grace Lee Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership. Her writing has been published in Boston Review, Yale Law & Policy Review, Detroit Free Press, Boston Globe, Michigan Journal of Race & Law, Harvard Journal of African-American Public Policy, Howard Human & Civil Rights Law Review, and other publications. Amanda earned her JD from Yale Law School and a PhD in international and global history from Columbia University.