CAS CONNECT 2018

T he youngest of 13 children from a farm in Oklahoma, Anita Hill received her J.D. fromYale Law School in 1980. She began her career in private practice inWashington, D.C., where she also worked at the U.S. Department of Education and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. In 1989, Hill became the first African-American to be tenured at the University of Oklahoma’s law school, where she taught contracts and commercial law. Currently, she teaches courses on gender, race, social policy and legal history at Brandeis University. As counsel to CohenMilstein, she advises on class-action workplace- discrimination cases. In her book Reimagining Equality: Stories of Gender, Race and Finding Home (Beacon Press, 2011), Hill analyzes the 2008 housing-market collapse and reforms that enable girls and women of all races and economic backgrounds to succeed in schools and workplaces. Hill’s commentaries have appeared in the Washington Post, New York Times, Boston Globe, Time, Newsweek and Ms. magazine. In numerous appearances on national television and scores of public lectures, Hill has spoken on subjects ranging from banks’ accountability for neighborhood losses in the 2008 recession to the role of female judges in adding to public confidence in the legal system, Title IX developments and eliminating campus sexual harassment and assault. She has received numerous grants, honorary degrees and awards. Her professional and civic contributions include chairing the Human Rights Law Committee of the International Bar Association, and membership on the Board of Governors of the Tufts Medical Center and the Board of Directors of the National Women’s LawCenter and the Boston Area Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights. Hill is the subject of Freida Lee Mock’s documentary, Anita , which premiered in January 2013 at the Sundance Film festival. ANITA F. HILL University Professor of Law, Public Policy and Women’s Studies Heller Graduate School of Policy and Management Brandeis University Waltham, Massachusetts Of Counsel at Cohen, Milstein, Sellers and Toll Washington, D.C. its impact on gender and racial equality. Hill adds this work to numerous other publications including books and articles on subjects ranging from bankruptcy to equal educational opportunity. Hill expands her pursuit of equality beyond law and policy, teaming up with MacArthur Genius Award-winning artist Mark Bradford as he created the U.S. Pavilion exhibit for the 2017 Venice (Italy) Biennale International Arts Festival. They are also collaborating on an exhibit inspired by the text of female civil-rights activists and their various contributions to the iconic 1963 “March on the Mall” and the Civil Rights Movement. Hill’s research, writing and public talks in connection with the exhibit focus on the contemporary importance of restoring women’s civil- rights-movement experiences through art, public engagement and scholarship. In addition, Hill is engaging prominent academics and business professionals all over the country to spearhead “The Gender/Race Imperative,” a project to revive awareness of the broad capacity of Title IX, the lawmandating equal education opportunities for women. “The Gender/ Race Imperative” aims to kickstart an inquiry as well as legal, policy and social Hall of Fame inductees Anita Hill (from left), Tom Daxson and Gaute Vik laugh with OSU President Burns Hargis. CAS HALL OF FAME 44 CONNECT 201 8