Kathleen Cleaver

Birth Name:

Kathleen Neal Cleaver

Birth Place:

Dallas, Texas, United States

Profession

Actress

Became the co-director of the Human Rights Research Fund in 2000, investigating violations of human rights in the United States
Was one of the inaugural recipients of Harvard University's Alphonse Fletcher Sr․ Fellowship in 2005
Studied at Barnard College, graduated Summa Cum Laude from Yale College with a degree in History in 1984, and earned her law degree from Yale Law School in 1989
Started out as a member of the campus program at the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and joined the Black Panther Party in 1967 as their communications secretary
Worked as an associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New York after graduating from law school
Best known as a law professor and for her involvement with the Black Panther Party
Works as a senior lecturer at Yale University's African American Studies Department and as a senior lecturer and research fellow at Emory University's School of Law
Co-edited "Liberation, Imagination, and the Black Panther Party" with George Katsiaficas and edited her former husband Eldridge Cleaver's "Target Zero: A Life in Writing․"
Has been a visiting faculty member at Yale University's Graduate School, the University of Texas Law School, the Benjamin N․ Cardozo School of Law, and Sarah Lawrence College
Her articles have appeared in numerous publications, including The Village Voice, Ramparts, The Boston Globe, and Transition

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