Template:TOCnestleftAdjoa Aiyetoro is a prominent U.S. "Black Reparations" activist.
Professor Aiyetoro has extensive experience[1]working domestically and internationally to obtain remedies for historical and present day wrongs to people of color, women and other oppressed groups.
She represented the Women's International League for Peace & Freedom, () at the World Conference Against Racism, including attending all the preparatory meetings and serving as a leader of the African and African Descendant Caucus.
In she coordinated the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law delegation to the United Nations Conference on Women in Beijing and also represented the organization at the Beijing Plus 5.
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Adjoa Aiyetoro joined the UALR law school faculty[2]in She graduated, A. B. in , Clark University, M.S.W., , Washington University and in cum laude, from St. Louis University School of Law where she was inducted into the Jesuit Honor Society, Alpha Sigma Nu. Before joining the faculty she had a career as a human rights attorney. She began her legal career as a staff attorney with the United States Department of J
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Civil rights lawyer and civic activist Adjoa Aiyetoro earned an A.B. degree in from Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, and an M.S.W. degree in from George Warren Brown School of Social Work. In , she graduated cum laude from St. Louis University School of Law. Aiyetoro served as staff attorney with the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice beginning in and then joined the National Prison Project of the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation as an attorney in As director of the National Conference of Black Lawyers beginning in , she strengthened both its advocacy efforts and fiscal position. She has also served as chief legal consultant to the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America and co-chairperson of the Reparations Coordinating Committee. Aiyetoro taught law at American University and served on the law faculty of University of Arkansas at Little Rock
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Adjoa A. Aiyetoro joined the UA Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law faculty in She is currently Professor of Law and the Director of the Racial Disparities in the Arkansas Criminal Justice System Research Project. The project released a comprehensive report of its research findings in August Aiyetoro served as the inaugural director of UA Little Rock&#;s Institute on Race and Ethnicity from July to December
Before joining the law faculty, Professor Aiyetoro had a career as a human rights attorney and social worker. As a social worker, she served as the supervisor for the Malcolm Bliss Community Mental Health Center’s Model Cities’ outpatient program. Aiyetoro began her legal career as a staff attorney with the United States Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Special Litigation Section where she litigated cases involving the rights of the institutionalized and developed an expertise in prisoner rights. She joined the ACLU National Prison Project in where she remained until
Since , Aiyetoro has served as the executive director of the Natio
Professor Adjoa Aiyetoro
William H. Bowen School of Law
Professor of Law
Professor Adjoa Aiyetoro has been a leading voice in ending racial disparities in the criminal justice system locally, statewide, and nationally. Her public service centers on researching and resolving racism and its effects in the United States, particularly raising awareness of the need for racial justice.
In , she served as the inaugural director of UA Little Rock&#;s Institute on Race and Ethnicity, which has a mission to seek racial and ethnic justice in Arkansas by remembering and understanding the past, informing and engaging the present, and shaping and defining the future. In January , she returned to Bowen as a full-time faculty member, where she has continued to work on projects that raise awareness of racial justice issues. She is also the director of the Racial Disparities in the Arkansas Criminal Justice System and brought the Racial Disparities Project to the law school.
Beginning in , as director of the Racial Disparities in the Arkansas Criminal Justice System, Professor Aiyetoro developed a team and began researching records of hundreds of Arkansas prisoners to determine the re
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