Meeting at the Margins: Legal Issues at the Intersection of Race, Gender, and Sexuality

The Columbia Journal of Race and Law, The Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, and Queer and Trans People of Color at Columbia Law School would like to cordially invite you to “Meeting at the Margins: Legal Issues at the Intersection of Race, Gender, and Sexuality.”

Through this symposium, we aim to center the experiences and legal issues of people whose marginalization is compounded by their race, gender, and/or sexuality. Because of their multidimensional identities, they are effectively erased by our single-axis legal systems and traditional frames of critical legal analysis. 

The symposium will feature speakers who have worked throughout their legal careers to elevate legal issues at the intersection of race, gender, and/or sexuality, including: 

Chinyere Ezie, United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission;

Evie Litwok, Witness to Mass Incarceration;

Kyle Rapiñan, Sylvia Rivera Law Project;

Richard Saenz, Lambda Legal; and

Porsha Venable, Neighborhood Defender Services of Harlem.

Please join us on November 8th in Jerome Green Hall 104 from 6:30pm–9 pm for dinner and discussion with these litigators and advocates who are working to progress civil rights.