Dr. Shannon Prince is an attorney and legal commentator. She drafted best practice language on policing policies for the National Initiative for Building Community Trust and Justice, represented plaintiffs in CCJEF v. Rell, a high-profile landmark education adequacy lawsuit. She also represented the Cherokee Nation in their lawsuit against pharmaceutical distributors and pharmacies for their role in the opioid crisis that the tribe had suffered. The Cherokee Nation was awarded $75M in that lawsuit. She is a member of her firm’s Firm Diversity Council and is a Legal Council on Legal Diversity Pathfinder.

Her writing has been published in The Hill, Transition Magazine, Science, and Jezebel among other venues, and she has a book on antiracism forthcoming from Routledge called Tactics for Racial Justice.

She earned her doctorate in African and African American Studies and her master’s degree in English from Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, her law degree from Yale Law School, and her bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College.

Racial Justice, Social Activism, Civil Rights, Leadership, Law, Social Justice, Lawyers, Environment, Diversity & Inclusion, DEI Culture, Education, News & Media, Authors, Corporate Culture, Organizational Behavior, Opioid Epidemic, Alcohol & Drug Abuse, Addiction & Recovery, Health, TED,