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Susan Sturm

George M. Jaffin Professor of Law and Social Responsibility at Columbia Law School and 1 other company
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Susan Sturm is the George M. Jaffin Professor of Law and Social Responsibility and the founding director of the Center for Institutional and Social Change at Columbia Law School. Her scholarship and teaching focus on advancing racial equity and full participation in educational, legal, and cultural institutions, and the role of law and leadership in advancing institutional and social change. Professor Sturm collaborates with a wide variety of higher education, legal, artistic, government, criminal justice, and community-based organizations and networks involved in organizational and culture change. She is the co-designer of courses and workshops on Lawyer Leadership: Leading Self, Leading Others, Leading Change and Access to Justice for People in Prison. She is the architect and creator of the Centering Change Skills Hub, an online platform aimed at cultivating leadership and building the capacity to address race in law schools, court systems, and communities. She has served as the Vice President and Director of Policy for the Tony award winning Broadway Advocacy Coalition, and co-creator with BAC of Theater of Change: Reimagining Justice, a highly acclaimed course offered at Columbia Law School. She is the recipient of the Presidential Teaching Award for Outstanding Teaching at Columbia University. Along with numerous scholarly publications, she is the author, with Lani Guinier, of Who’s Qualified: A New Democracy Forum on the Future of Affirmative Action. She is also the author of the book, What Might Be: Confronting Racism to Transform Our Institutions (February 2025, Princeton University Press).

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