Anita Hill
- Brandeis University Professor of Law, Social Policy & Women’s and Gender Studies
- Chair of the Hollywood Commission
- Advocate for equality and civil rights
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Anita Hill Speaker Biography
The youngest of 13 children from a farm in rural Oklahoma, Anita Hill received her J.D. from Yale Law School in 1980. She began her career in private practice in Washington, D.C. Before becoming a law professor, she worked at the U. S. Education Department and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. In 1989, Hill became the first African American to be tenured at the University of Oklahoma, College of Law, where she taught contracts and commercial law. She has made presentations to hundreds of business, professional, academic, and civic organizations in the United States and abroad.
As counsel to Cohen Milstein, Anita Hill advises on class action workplace discrimination cases.
Hill’s book, Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence, is the winner of the 2022 ABA Silver Gavel Award for Books. It is a new manifesto about the origins and course of gender violence in our society; a combination of memoir, personal accounts, law, and social analysis, and a powerful call to arms from one of our most prominent and poised survivors.
Anita’s previous book is Reimagining Equality: Stories of Gender, Race, and Finding Home. She has also written an autobiography, Speaking Truth to Power. With Professor Emma Coleman Jordan, she co-edited Race, Gender, and Power in America: The Legacy of the Hill-Thomas Hearings.
Professor Hill’s commentary has been published in TIME, Newsweek, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, and Ms. Magazine. She has appeared on national television programs including Good Morning America, Meet the Press, The Today Show, The Tavis Smiley Show, and Larry King Live.
Professor Hill has received numerous honorary degrees and civic awards. She has chaired the Human Rights Law Committee of the International Bar Association. In addition, she is on the Board of Governors of the Tufts Medical Center and the Board of Directors of the National Women’s Law Center, and the Boston Area Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights.
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Reimagining Equality
Civil Rights
Sexual Harrassment
Politics, the Media and the Law
