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1 CHERYL NELSON BUTLER 3315 DANIEL AVENUE DALLAS, TEXAS Phone ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY (SMU) DEDMAN SCHOOL OF LAW Assistant Professor of Law, August 2011 Present Podium Lecture: Torts I & Torts II; Employment Discrimination Writing Seminars: Critical Race Theory Civil Rights Seminar Employment Discrimination Writing Seminar Teaching Expertise: Tort Law; Employment Law; Civil Rights; Family Law; Sexuality; Critical Race Theory; Legal Writing Awards & Outstanding Faculty Leadership Award 2014 Honors Awarded by the SMU Women in Law Association for teaching, scholarship, advocacy & leadership on women s issues. Don Smart Student Directed Research Award (Teaching) Beverly & David Leonard Faculty Research Award Honorable Mention, SMU Law School Hooding Ceremony 2013: Acknowledged by Valedictorian as one of the favorite professors. UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON LAW CENTER Visiting Fellow, Center for Children, Law & Policy, June 2010-May 2011 Assistant Clinical Professor of Law, July 2003-June 2005 Courses: Legal Research & Writing I & II L.L.M. Advanced Legal Writing Seminar EDUCATION NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW, Juris Doctor N.Y.U. Review of Law & Social Change, Staff Editor Root Tilden Kern Scholar Tuition Merit Scholars Program Junior Fellow, Center for International Legal Studies Merit Scholars Program Research Assistant, Professor Derrick A. Bell (Constitutional Law, Civil Rights) Inaugural NAACP LDF - Shearman & Sterling Scholar Nelson Mandela National Award, National Black Law Students Association Patrick B. Abramson Foundation Award for Public Service Black Bar Association of Bronx County Merit Scholarship 1

2 HARVARD UNIVERSITY, A.B., cum laude, History & African American Studies. Magna cum laude honors awarded for senior thesis and coursework in the dual major. Thesis: Models Worthy of a Great Republic: The Nature and Meaning of Education for Blacks in Washington, D.C., Harvard University Archives, Permanent Collection Harvard College Nominee, John Marshall National Scholarship Ellen A. Barr Award for Character & Academic Excellence Elizabeth Cary Agassiz Award (for Academic Distinction) Undergraduate Research Fellowship, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study PUBLICATIONS 1. The Racial Roots of Human Trafficking, 62 UCLA LAW REVIEW 1464 (2015) (51 pages)(symposium contribution invited by UCLA Law faculty) Featured on: LSN Criminology ejournal Vol. 10, No. 49, September 15, 2015 SSRN Top Ten Download List for Human Trafficking, September 2015 SSRN Top Ten Download List for LSN: Causes and Consequences of Crime, September 2015; October 2015 SSRN Top Ten Download List for LSN: International Political Economy: Migration ejournal, September 2015 SSRN Top Ten Download List for Criminal Law (Sexuality), September 2015 Immigration Prof Blog, Immigration Article of the Day, September 16, 2015, available at tion-article-of-the-day-the-racial-roots-of-human-trafficking-bycheryl-nelson-butler.html. CrimProf Blog, September 15, 2015, available at -butler-on-the-racial-roots-of-human-trafficking.html. Just Legal News Blog, September 15, 2015, available at Symposium discussed on California s Forgotten Children Blog, 2

3 2. Bridge Over Troubled Water: Safe Harbor Laws for Prostituted Minors, 93 NORTH CAROLINA LAW REVIEW 1281 (2015) (58 pages) Citations include: Tamar Birckhead, Symposium 2014: Vulnerable Defendants in the Criminal Justice System, 93 N.C. L. REV. 1211, 1214, 1216 (2015). Priscilla A. Ocean, E(racing) Childhood: Examining the Racialized Construction & Innocence in the Treatment of Sexually Exploited Minors, 62 UCLA L. REV. 1586, 1632 (2015). New York Unified Court System, Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Vol New York Children s Lawyer 8 (August 2015)(New York State Bar publication), available at Featured on: SSRN Top Ten Download List for LSN: Victims Rights, September 2015 The Faculty Lounge, September 30, 2014, available at Article featured on North Carolina Law Review website at 3. A Critical Race Feminist Perspective on Prostitution and Sex Trafficking, 27 YALE JOURNAL OF LAW & FEMINISM 95 (2015)(45 pages) Featured on: SSRN Top Ten Download List for Race, Gender, Class, September 2015 SSRN Top Ten Download List for Women, Gender & Law ejournal, September 2015 SSRN Top Ten Download List for AARN: Kinship, Gender, & the Body & Sexuality, September 2015 SSRN Top Ten Download List for Sexuality, August 2015 SSRN Top Ten Download List for Criminology ejournal, September 2015 Gender and the Law Prof Blog, August 27, 2015, CrimProf Blog, August 23, 2015, available at -butler-on-a-critical-race-feminist-perspective-on-prostitution-andsex-trafficking.html. 3

4 Twitter by SMU Law Dean Jennifer Collins, August 27, 2015 Just Legal News Blog, August 23, 2015, available at: RACE-FEMINIST-PERSPECTIVE-ON-PROSTITUTION-AND-SEX- TRAFFICKING/html. 4. The Story Behind a Letter In Support of Professor Derrick Bell: A Symposium in Honor of Professor Derrick Bell: Continuing Professor Bell s Legacy of Race Law Scholarship and Social Justice Advocacy, 75 UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH LAW REVIEW 729 (2015)(11 pgs.)( Invited Contribution)(Coauthored with Professors Margaret E. Montoya, Natsu Taylor Saito, Tanya M. Washington, Suzette Malveaux, and Sherrilyn Ifill) Featured on: The Faculty Lounge, June 14, 2015 available at American Constitutional Society Website, available at %20FINAL% pdf. 5. Making the Grade: The United States TIP Report Card & The Fight Against Child Sex Trafficking, 67 SMU LAW REVIEW 341 (2014)(30 pgs) Citations include: Cited and quoted parenthetically by Amicus Curiae Love 146 in its brief before the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of City of Los Angeles v. Naranjibhai Patel on Writ of Certiorari to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (January 2015). Cited in ALEXANDRA LUTNICK, BEYOND VICTIMS AND VILLAINS: THE COMPLEX ISSUE OF DOMESTIC MINOR SEX TRAFFICKING (COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS 2015). 6. Kids For Sale: Does America Recognize Her Own Sexually Exploited Minors as Victims of Human Trafficking? 44 SETON HALL LAW REVIEW 833 (2014)(39 pgs) Citations include: Ranked #3 Most Popular Papers Published in the Seton Hall Law Review ( based on the average number of full-text downloads per day since the paper was posted. Updated as of 7/23/2015), available at 4

5 Aya Gruber, Symposium: Critical Race Theory & Empirical Methods Conference: When Theory Met Practice: Distributional Analysis in Critical Criminal Law Theorizing, 83 FORDHAM L. REV. 3211, 3231, n.111 (2015). Unified Court System, Appellate Divisions of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Volume XXX, Issue II New York The Children s Lawyer 8 (August 2014)(New York State Bar publication), available at Zach Dillon Verham, The Invisibility of Online Slavery, 8 INTERSECT: STAN. J SCIENCE, TECHN. & SOCIETY, 1, (2015). Brendan M. Connor, In Loco Aequitatis: The Dangers of Safe Harbor Laws for Youth in the Sex Trades, STAN. J. C.R. & C.L. (forthcoming 2016). Assigned Course Reading, Professor Jaya Davis, UT Arlington, Syllabus for Course CRCJ 5393: Topics in Crime & Criminology, available at 7. Blackness as Delinquency, 90 WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 1335 (2013)(Lead Article)(64 pgs) Citations include: Robin W. Sterling, Juvenile Sex-Offender Registration: An Impermissible Life Sentence, 82 U. CHI. L. REV. 295, 298, n.18 (2015). Priscilla A. Ocean, E(racing) Childhood: Examining the Racialized Construction & Innocence in the Treatment of Sexually Exploited Minors, 62 UCLA L. REV. 1586, 1614 (2015). Elizabeth L. MacDowell, Reimagining Access to Justice in the Poor People s Courts, 22 GEO. J. POV. L. & POL Y 473, (2015). Aya Neelum, Family Driven Justice, 56 ARIZ. L. REV. 623, 636 (2014). MC Quinn, From Turkey Trot to Twitter: Policing Puberty, Purity & Sex Positivity, 38 NYU REV. L. & SOC. CHANGE 51, 71, n.119 (2014). J.D. Weaver, Beyond Child Welfare: Theories on Child Homelessness, 21 WASH. & L. J. CIV. RIGHTS & SOC. JUST. 16, 32, n.107 (2014). Featured on: Featured on the CrimProf Blog, on August 16,

6 Featured on the Legal History Blog, February 28, 2012 Featured on the Juvenile Justice Blog, June 21, 2012 SSRN Top Ten Download List for Criminal Law ejournal, October 2012 SSRN Top Ten Download List for Criminology ejournal, October 2012 Over 470 Abstract Views; 200 Downloads as of August Sex Slavery in the Lone Star State: Does the Texas Human Trafficking Legislation of 2011 Protect Sexually Exploited Minors? 45 AKRON LAW REVIEW 843 (2012)(42 pgs) Citations include: Stewart Chang, Feminism in Yellowface, 38 HARV. J.L. & GENDER 235, 250, n. 104 (2015). CHILDREN AT RISK, JR HERRERA, JUVENILE SPECIALTY COURTS: AN EXAMINATION OF REHABILITATIVE JUSTICE IN TEXAS AND ACROSS THE NATION (2014) TIMOTHY ADAM GOLOB, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF GOVERNMENT AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, MASTER S THESIS, HUMAN TRAFFICKING FROM SOUTHERN MEXICO, HONDURAS, EL SALVADOR & GUATEMALA: WHY THESE VICTIMS ARE TRAFFICKED INTO MODERN DAY FLORIDA (2014). Samuel Vincent Jones, The Invisible Women: Have Conceptions of Femininity Led to Global Dominance of the Female Human Trafficker? 7 ALB. GOV T L. REV. 143, 147, n. 13 (2014). Michelle Torres, A Child Is Not a Commodity: Stopping Domestic Child Se Trafficking, 24 U FLA. J.L & POL. 213, 214, n.5 (2013). Janet C Sully, Note, Precedent or Problem: Alameda County s Diversion Policy for Youth Charged with Prostitution & the Case for a Policy of Immunity, 55 WM. & MARY L REV. 687, 692, n.2 (2013). Lisa Holl Chang, Comment, Reaching Safe Harbor: A Path for Sex Trafficking in Wisconsin, 2013 WISC. L. REV. 1489, 1501, n.90 (2013). E. Goxdziak, Ph.D. et. al., Georgetown University, Bibliography of Research Based Literature on Human Trafficking, (2015) available at 15%20TRAFFICKING%20BIBLIOGRAPHY.PDF 6

7 9. Eulogy for Sarah McQuillen Tran: Teacher, Scholar, Mother, and Friend, 67 SMU LAW REVIEW 463 (2015) (Tribute to my late SMU Law colleague celebrating her heroic battle against cancer. Based on my eulogy delivered at her memorial service) Works in Progress 10. At the Crossroads: Does the U.S. T.I.P. Report Set Clear Standards for International Human Trafficking Law & Policy? (Spring 2016 submission) 11. Teaching Palsgraf (Spring 2016 submission) 12. Obama s EEOC: Using Employment Discrimination Law to Combat Human Trafficking 13. They Who Rock the Cradle Rule the World : Feminist Origins of the Juvenile Court 14. Gendering #Blacklivesmatter PUBLIC TESTIMONY 2015 United States Congress. Texas Congressional Delegation s Summit on Community Policing. University of Texas at Arlington, January 15, Testimony: The Need to Revisit Community Policing in Texas. Worked with Office of Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson to plan summit. Presented paper and moderated panels consisting of elected officials, community leaders and stakeholders. GUEST LECTURES Catholic University School of Law Dallas, Washington D.C., Poland, Fall 2013 Critical Race Feminism Teaching Across the Globe Guest Lecturer. Co-taught by former Associate Dean Suzette Malveaux Provided several live interactive online lectures (webinar) for students in Poland enrolled in Dean Malveaux s Civil Rights Seminar Presented: Intersectionality & the Law: Discrimination Based Race, Gender and other Combined Factors 7

8 INVITED KEYNOTE & PLENARY PRESENTATIONS Vanderbilt University Law School Nashville, TN. July th Annual Lutie A. Lytle Black Women Law Faculty Writing Workshop First Junior Faculty member in the history of the Workshop to present on the workshop s annual Legal Scholarship Plenary Panel. Presented: Advancing Your Legal Research & Social Agenda American Association of Law Schools (AALS) Universal Studios, Orlando Florida. June Mid-Year Meeting & Workshop on Next Generation Issues of Sex, Gender, and Law. Presented: The Racial Roots of Human Trafficking UCLA Law School Los Angeles, CA. January UCLA Law Review Symposium: Examining the Roots of Human Trafficking and Exploitation. Presented: The Racial Roots of Human Trafficking Yale Law School New Haven, CT. January Yale Critical Race Theory Conference, Panel on Intersectionality on the Body: Policing the Sexual and Reproductive Rights of Women of Color. Presented: A Critical Race Feminist Perspective on Prostitution & Sex Trafficking in America University of Arkansas William H. Bowen School of Law Little Rock, AK. April 5, Southeast Southwest People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference: Empty Promises? - The Constitution at 225. Keynote Panel on Status Oppression & Liberation Bioethics. Presented: A Critical Race Feminist Perspective on Prostitution & Sex Trafficking in America 8

9 INVITED PANELIST OR SPEAKER Tulane University Law School New Orleans, LA. November 3, 2014 Invited Presenter, Symposium on the Future of Inequality Presented: Bridge over Troubled Water: Safe Harbor Laws for Sexually Exploited Minors University of North Carolina (UNC) School of Law Raleigh, NC. October 10, 2014 Invited Presenter, 15 th Annual North Carolina Law Review Symposium Panel: Vulnerable Defendants and the Criminal Justice System Presented: Bridge over Troubled Water: Safe Harbor Laws for Sexually Exploited Minors University of Arkansas William H. Bowen School of Law Little Rock, AK. April 5, Southeast / Southwest People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference Empty Promises?: The Constitution at 225. Panel on Reconstruction Era Amendment Inheritance Striving for Equality Beyond Race. Presented: Blackness as Delinquency Samford University Cumberland School of Law Birmingham, AL. March 30, 2012 Invited Presenter, 2012 Southeast / Southwest People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference: Transformative Advocacy, Scholarship, and Praxis: Taking Our Pulse. Presented: Kids for Sale University of Baltimore School of Law, Center for Applied Feminism Baltimore, MD. October 20, 2010 Lunchtime Law Fall Symposium: Girls in the Juvenile Justice System. Presented: Kids for Sale PANEL ORGANIZER Duke University Law School Duke Center on Law, Race, and Politics Charlotte, North Carolina. November 20th-21st,

10 Conference on The Present & Future of Civil Rights Movements: Race and Reform in 21 st Century America. Panel Co-Organizer, Panel on Identity/Intersectionality: #BlackWomenMatter: Black Women s Bodies and Sites of Mass Surveillance Presenting: Gendering #BlackLivesMatter University of Puerto Rico School of Law San Juan, PR. December 5, Northeast People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference (NEPOC). Panel on Marginalization in the Struggle against Human Trafficking. Presented: A Critical Race Feminist Perspective on Prostitution & Sex Trafficking in America 15th Annual Conference of the Association for Study of Law, Society & Culture (ASLSC) at Texas A&M University School of Law Fort Worth, TX. March 15, 2012 Presented: Blackness as Delinquency OTHER CONFERENCE & SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS University of Houston Law Center Houston, TX. August 30-31st, st Annual Texas Junior Scholar s Workshop (Co-Sponsored by UH & SMU) Presented: At the Crossroads: Does the U.S. T.I.P. Report Set Clear Standards for International Human Trafficking Law & Policy? Vanderbilt University Law School 9 th Annual Lutie A. Lytle Black Women Law Faculty Writing Workshop Nashville, TN. July 11, 2015 Presented: Gendering #BlackLivesMatter University of Kentucky College of Law Lexington, KY. May 21, 2014 Selected Presenter, Annual Developing Ideas Conference Presented draft paper and received feedback from conference participants via teleconference. Provided comments on works in progress presented by other scholars. Presented: Bridge Over Troubled Water: Safe Harbor Laws for Sexually Exploited Minors 10

11 Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Association of Law Schools The Breakers, West Palm Beach, FL. August 5, 2013 Selected Presenter, Nominated by SMU Law Dean (SEALS) New Scholars Workshop Presented: A Critical Race Feminist Perspective on Prostitution & Trafficking University of Nevada School of Law Las Vegas, NV. June 27-30, 2013 Selected Presenter, 2013 Lutie A. Lytle Black Women Law Faculty Writing Workshop: A Scholarly Salon in Nevada. Presented: A Critical Race Feminist Perspective on Prostitution & Trafficking University of Pennsylvania School of Law Philadelphia, PA. Jan. 26, 2013 Selected Panelist, Mid-Atlantic People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference (MAPOC) 2013: President Lincoln s Emancipation Proclamation: On the Doubts, Questions & Problems of Full Citizenship. Presented: A Critical Race Feminist Perspective on Prostitution & Trafficking Annual Meeting of the American Society for Legal History (ASLH) Hosted by Washington University in St. Louis Law School & Saint Louis University School of Law Four Seasons Hotel. St. Louis, MO. November 11, 2012 Panel on Women & Legal History. Presented: Blackness as Delinquency Gonzaga University School of Law Co-sponsored by the Task Force on Race & Criminal Justice in the West Spokane, WA. September 24, 2011 Selected Panelist, Conference: Race and Criminal Justice in the West Presented: Blackness As Delinquency Texas Southern University Thurgood Marshall School of Law Houston, TX. June 18, 2011 Selected Presenter, 5 th Annual Lutie A. Lytle Black Women Law Faculty Writing Workshop: Freedom Writers. Presented: Blackness As Delinquency 11

12 University of Wisconsin Law School Madison, WI. November 16, 2012 Selected Panelist, Youth and the Perpetual Underclass, ClassCrits V Legal Scholarship Conference: From Madison to Zuccotti Park: Confronting Class and Reclaiming the American Dream, Madison, WI. Presented: Kids For Sale American University Washington College of Law Washington, D.C. September 24, 2011 Selected Panelist, ClassCrits IV Legal Scholarship Conference: Criminalizing Economic Inequality, Presented: Bridge Over Troubled Water: Safe Harbor Laws for Sexually Exploited Minors University of Denver Sturm College of Law Denver, CO. October 2010 Selected Presenter, Fifteenth Annual LatCrit (Latina and Latino Critical Legal Theory) Conference: The Color of the Economic Crisis: Exploring the Downturn from the Bottom Up. Presented: Sex Slavery in the Lone Star State Arizona State University College of Law Phoenix, AZ. Oct Selected Presenter, Second Annual Aspiring Law Professors Conference, Presented: Sex Slavery in the Lone Star State PEER REVIEWER COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS Manuscript Reviewer, (Gender & the Law) Reviewed: ALEXANDRA LUTNICK, BEYOND VICTIMS AND VILLAINS: THE COMPLEX ISSUE OF DOMESTIC MINOR SEX TRAFFICKING (Columbia University Press 2015). University of Houston Law Center Houston, TX. August 30-31st, st Annual Texas Junior Scholar s Workshop (Co-Sponsored by UH & SMU) Commentator: Adventures of Students in the New Normal by Professor Janet Beck 12

13 Vanderbilt University Law School Nashville, TN. July 9-12, th Annual Lutie A. Lytle Black Women Law Faculty Writing Workshop Commentator: Reconstructing Pregnancy by Professor Saru M. Matambanadzo, (Forthcoming, SMU LAW REVIEW 2016) Samford University Cumberland School of Law Birmingham, AL. March 30, Southeast / Southwest People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference: Transformative Advocacy, Scholarship, and Praxis: Taking Our Pulse. Commentator: You Got Brides! Expanding Our Reach: Human Rights & Legal Issues of International Online Matchmaking by Linh K. Dai, Ph.D. Candidate, Arizona State University IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law Institute for Law & Humanities Chicago, IL. October 1, Invited Participant, Women s Legal History Conference Commented on presentation of several conference papers later published in Chicago-Kent Law Review Symposium Issue. SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS AT SMU SMU Dedman School of Law & the American Constitution Society Dallas, TX. October 1, 2015 The Future of Reproductive Rights Law Jurisprudence Lecture and Open Forum presented with Attorney Susan Hays SMU Dedman School of Law Flash Class Series Dallas, TX. September 19, 2015 What Time is it, Irving: Questions on School Security Open Forum co-taught with Dean Jennifer Collins and other SMU faculty SMU Dedman School of Law & Dedman College Dallas, TX. Fall 2014 Women & Gender Studies Certificate Program, Guest Lecturer SMU Dedman School of Law, Junior Faculty Forum Dallas, TX. March 7, 2013 Presented: A Critical Race Feminist Perspective on Prostitution & Trafficking 13

14 SMU Cox School of Business Dallas, TX. February 11, 2011 Panel on Women & Democracy Inaugural Women s Initiative Fellowship Program of the George W. Bush Presidential Center, Bush Institute. Presented: The Women s Suffrage Movement in the United States PRESENTATIONS FOR SMU STUDENTS GROUPS SMU Dedman School of Law & Employment Law Student Association Dallas, TX. October 29, 2015 Presented on Employment Discrimination: Theory & Practice SMU Dedman School of Law Flash Class Series Dallas, TX. October 27, 2015 Affirmative Action: The Supreme Court Reconsiders Fisher? Open Forum co-taught with Professor Lack Bloom SMU Dedman School of Law & American Constitution Society Dallas, TX. September 29, 2015 Invited Presenter, Griswold at 50: Reproductive Rights at the Crossroads SMU Dedman School of Law, Inaugural Flash Class Series Dallas, TX. September 23, 2015 Flash Class #1: What Time is it, Irving Texas? Faculty-Student session with Dean Collins and several faculty members. Discussed the arrest of a Muslim 14 year old in the context of federal Racial Profiling laws. SMU Dedman School of Law, Law Women Association, Black Law Student Association Dallas, TX. April 19, 2012 Invited Presenter, Justice for Trayvon: Race and Police Brutality in America. Teach-In on Trayvon Martin: Examining Race & Justice in America, Presenter, Panel Presentation with 2012 Professor of the Year Jeffrey Bellin. SMU Dedman School of Law, Law Women Association Dallas, TX. February 28, 2012 Invited Panel Moderator, The F-Bomb : Women and Feminism. Dallas, TX. 14

15 SMU Dedman School of Law, Black Law Student Association Dallas, TX. February 21, 2012 Invited Panelist, The Legacy of Brown vs. Board of Education. Panel Moderator, Panel included federal judges and civil rights leaders. SMU Dedman School of Law, American Constitutional Society Dallas, TX. November 4, 2011 Invited Panelist, Panel Topic: Spotlight on Civil Rights: How Racial and Religious Profiling Offends the Rule of Law. Presented: Blackness as Delinquency Texas Southern University Thurgood Marshall School of Law Houston, TX. June 20, 2011 Just the Beginning Foundation, Inc., Inaugural Texas Summer Legal Institute Panel on Introduction to the Rule of Law & the Legal Profession. EXPERT & PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS Top Ladies of Distinction, Incorporated National Executive Conference St. Louis, MO. October 2015 ParliamenTop: Meeting of the National Executive Board Presented: Legal Issues & Ethics; Business Practice Knowledge is Power Program, (KIPP) High School Houston, Texas. January 2008 Intersession Course Instructor. Presented: How to Write as a Law Reporter. American Bar Association Council on Legal Education Opportunity (CLEO) Atlanta, Georgia. July 2004 Attitude Is Essential Seminar Presented, How to Master the 1L Curriculum. American Express Travel Group Annual Regional Conference New York, New York. July 22, 2004 Presented: Corporate Diversity on the 50th Anniversary of the Brown vs. Board of Education Decision. 15

16 COMMITMENT TO EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING (Law Teacher Training & Professional Development) Becoming a Master Teacher Vanderbilt University Law School 9 th Annual Lutie Lytle Black Female Law Faculty Writing Workshop Nashville, TN July 9-12, 2015 On Being Black and Female in the Classroom Vanderbilt University Law School 9 th Annual Lutie Lytle Black Female Law Faculty Writing Workshop Nashville, TN July 9-12, 2015 Balancing Scholarship, Teaching, & Service after Tenure Vanderbilt University Law School 9 th Annual Lutie Lytle Black Female Law Faculty Writing Workshop Nashville, TN July 9-12, nd Annual Teaching Effectiveness Symposium SMU Center for Teaching Excellence Thursday, August 21, 2014 Showcase Your Teaching: Beyond Teaching Evaluations New Faculty Teaching Excellence Program (NFTE) SMU Center for Teaching Excellence Dallas, Texas, April 23, Navigating Race in Academic Institutions (Teaching & Scholarship) Yale Critical Race Theory Conference, Yale Law School, April 5, Crafting Your Teaching Philosophy New Faculty Teaching Excellence Program (NFTE) SMU Center for Teaching Excellence Dallas, Texas, March 25, The Road to Tenure New Faculty Teaching Excellence Program (NFTE) SMU Center for Teaching Excellence Dallas, Texas, October 23,

17 The Raw Materials of Excellent Teaching: Collecting Evidence, Getting Early Feedback New Faculty Teaching Excellence Program (NFTE) SMU Center for Teaching Excellence Dallas, Texas, September 12, Workshop on Teaching and Evaluation Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS), The Breakers, West Palm Beach, FL. August 5, Overcoming Barriers to Law Teaching Faced by Women of Color 2013 Lutie A. Lytle Black Women Law Faculty Writing Workshop: A Scholarly Salon in Nevada. University of Nevada School of Law Las Vegas, Nevada, June 27-30, Addressing Challenges in and to the Legal Academy 2012 Southeast / Southwest People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference: Transformative Advocacy, Scholarship, and Praxis: Taking Our Pulse, The Cumberland School of Law at Samford University Birmingham, AL. March 30, New Law Teacher Workshop American Association of American Law Schools (AALS). Attended several sessions focused on the mastery of law teaching skills. Topics covered Learning Styles ; The Changing Nature of Curriculum & Teaching ; Testing and Assessment of Students, Feedback about Yourself, How to Measure Your Own Effectiveness as a Teacher ; and Service and Professionalism for Junior Faculty. The Renaissance Mayflower Hotel, Washington, D.C., June 23-25, Plenary Session: Teaching (Session on effective teaching strategies and how to overcome barriers faced by women and people of color)) Pre-tenured People of Color Law School Teachers Workshop, American Association of American Law Schools (AALS). The Renaissance Mayflower Hotel Washington, D.C., June 25-26, Writing as Creative Habit (Presentation included strategies on how to balance the demands of teaching with the expectation of producing legal scholarship) 17

18 2011 Lutie A. Lytle Black Women Law Faculty Writing Workshop, Freedom Writers, Texas Southern University Thurgood Marshall School of Law, cosponsored by University of Houston Law Center Houston, TX. June 16-19, Eighth Annual Junior Faculty Development Workshop (Full day workshop including presentations on teaching techniques and strategies for balancing the demands of teaching vs. scholarship) Fifteenth Annual LatCrit (Latina and Latino Critical Legal Theory) Conference: The Color of the Economic Crisis: Exploring the Downturn from the Bottom Up, University of Denver Sturm College of Law Denver, CO. October SERVICE TO SMU AND THE LEGAL ACADEMY American Association of Law Schools (AALS) SMU s Alternate Delegate Annual Meeting Civil Rights Section, Secretary ; Treasurer Minority Section, Member 2013-Present American Bar Association (ABA) Section on Litigation & Mass Torts, Attended 2015 Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS) SMU Steering Committee Delegate Lutie Lytle National Black Women s Law Faculty Workshop SMU President s Commission on the Status of Women 2012-Present Membership Chair ; Campus Climate Co-Chair SMU Bush Institute, George W. Bush Presidential Center Inaugural SMU Women s Initiative Fellowship Program SMU Law School Dean Search Committee Appointed by the University Provost; Successful search SMU Crum Residential Commons, Inaugural Faculty Affiliate SMU Women s Studies Certificate Program, Advisory Committee, Present SMU Black Law Students Association, Faculty Advisor 2012-Present SMU Law Judicial Clerkship Committee 2012-Present SMU Law ABA Compliance Committee SMU Law Faculty Forum & Endowed Lecturer Committees SMU Law Jackson Walker Moot Court Competition Judge

19 MEDIA RELATED TO ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS Texas Congress Members Hold Community Policing Summit, WFAA8 (ABC News), January 15, 2015 (discussing summit between elected officials, police officials, federal and state attorneys, the Texas NAACP, and other community stakeholders with Members of Congress. I served as a moderator and discussant for the second of three panel discussions). SMU Faculty Members Mentor First Women s Initiative Fellows, available at The Quad, Fall 2012, available at Remembering SMU Law Professor Sarah Tran, Texas Lawyer, March 19, 2014, (Paying tribute to my late colleague and friend), available at Law-Professor-Sarah-Tran?slreturn= Sarah Tran, SMU Law Professor Dies at 34, Dallas Morning News, March 15, 2014 (Paying tribute to my late colleague and friend and discussing my forthcoming eulogy delivered at Highland Park United Methodist Church), available at News articles about my professional achievements and public service work prior to joining the SMU faculty are published in Black Enterprise, Jet Magazine, The Houston Chronicle; Houston Style Magazine; The Houston Defender; the New York Daily News, and have been broadcast on Fox News and other media outlets. LEGAL EXPERIENCE Federal Judicial Clerkship The Honorable Emmet G. Sullivan, U.S. District Court Judge for the District of Columbia Judicial Law Clerk. August 1996-August

20 Law Practice Top Teens of America Top Ladies of Distinction. Inc., Houston, TX. Executive Director, General Counsel. June Advised national non-profit organization on matters of real estate, contract, tort, trademark, and nonprofit law. Enron Corporation, Houston, TX. November 2000 April Senior Counsel. Advised Fortune 500 Corporation on business and litigation matters. Responded to subpoenas from SEC and Congress regarding bankruptcy. Managed legal docket and counseled Purchasing Department -100 client unit. Debevoise & Plimpton, NY, NY. December 1997-April Associate. Litigation Department. National Partnership for Women & Families (NPWF), Washington, D.C Policy Counsel, Georgetown U. Law Center Fellow. August Lobbied the White House and United States Congress for enactment of fair employment and other civil rights legislation. Georgetown University Law Center, Women s Law & Public Policy Fellowship Program, Washington, D.C. August 1995-August Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, NY, NY. Associate, March-Sept.1995; Summer Associate. Summer Legal Momentum Women s Legal Defense & Education Fund, NY, NY. Law Clerk. Fall 1994; Summer 1994; Spring NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund; Shearman & Sterling, NY, NY. Law Clerk. Summer 1992; Summer New York State (Active) BAR ADMISSION BAR AFFILIATIONS AND COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES Dallas Bar Association Dallas Women Lawyers Association 20

21 J.L. Turner Legal Association, Dallas, Texas Top Ladies of Distinction, Incorporated, National Parliamentarian, Counsel Highland Park I.S.D., Armstrong Elementary School PTO (former member) 21