President of the Board
University of California-Boalt Hall School of Law

Angela Harris is a nationally-known Critical Race Theorist, having published a number of significant, influential works in that field. She is a professor of law at the University of California at Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law, where she teaches environmental justice, among other courses, and her research focuses on feminist legal theory and critical race theory. She was a founding board member of Berkeley’s Environmental Law Community Clinic, as well as a founding board member of CRPE. In 2008, Harris received the Clyde Ferguson Award from the Minority Section of the American Association of Law Schools for outstanding mentorship of the next generation of minority law teachers.  She has also received the Rutter Award for Teaching Distinction, an annual award that honors a Boalt Hall professor who has demonstrated an outstanding commitment to teaching, and the Mathew O. Tobriner Public Service Award, an annual prize awarded by the San Francisco Legal Aid Society that recognizes Bay Area law school professors for their commitment to academic diversity and for mentoring the next generation of lawyers.  Professor Harris received her B.A. from the University of Michigan, and her M.A. and J.D. from the University of Chicago. She was a visiting professor at Stanford Law School in 1991, Yale Law School in 1997 and Georgetown Law Center in 2000, and the State University of New York at Buffalo in 2009-10.