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Alexis Hoag-Fordjour

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American legal scholar (born 1982)
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Alexis Hoag-Fordjour (born 1982) is an assistant professor of law and co-director of the Center for Criminal Justice at Brooklyn Law School.  Born in Southern California, Hoag-Fordjour is a first-generation Tanzanian-American (Chagga). She received a bachelor's degree from Yale University, and a Juris Doctor degree from NYU School of Law, after which she spent more than a decade working as a civil rights and capital defense attorney at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., and the Office of the Federal Public Defender. Hoag-Fordjour was the inaugural practitioner-in-residence at the Eric H. Holder Jr. Initiative for Civil & Political Rights at Columbia University and a lecturer at Columbia Law School. She served as a law clerk to the late Honorable John T. Nixon of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee.

Hoag-Fordjour was elected a member of the American Law Institute in 2021.

In July 2022, Hoag-Fordjour married Derek Fordjour at the Arthur Ross Terrace and Garden at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in Manhattan.

References

  1. ^ "Brooklyn Law School - Hoag-Fordjour Alexis". www.brooklaw.edu. Retrieved 2022-11-03.
  2. Decaille, Nia (2022-07-22). "With Lots of Eye Contact, Something Clicked". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-11-03.
  3. Decaille, Nia (2022-07-22). "With Lots of Eye Contact, Something Clicked". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-11-03.


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