The Russell Sage Foundation is pleased to announce the appointment of Martha Minow to its board of trustees. Minow is the Morgan and Helen Chu Dean and Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where she has taught since 1981, and a lecturer in the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is co-editor of the RSF books Just Schools (2010), Engaging Cultural Differences (2004), and a contributor to Fathers Under Fire (2001).

After completing her undergraduate studies at the University of Michigan, Minow received a master’s degree in education from Harvard and a law degree from Yale. She clerked for Judge David Bazelon of the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and then for Justice Thurgood Marshall of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Minow is an expert in human rights and advocacy for members of racial and religious minorities and for women, children, and persons with disabilities. She served on the Independent International Commission on Kosovo and helped to launch Imagine Co-existence, a program of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, to promote peaceful development in post-conflict societies. Her five-year partnership with the federal Department of Education and the Center for Applied Special Technology worked to increase access to the curriculum for students with disabilities and resulted in both legislative initiatives and a voluntary national standard opening access to curricular materials for individuals with disabilities. She has also worked on the Divided Cities initiative which is building an alliance of global cities dealing with ethnic, religious, or political divisions.

Click here to visit Minow’s Harvard Law School profile.