Wendy Greene
The daughter of American civil rights activists, Doris “Wendy” Greene is a trailblazing U.S. anti-discrimination law scholar, teacher, and advocate who has devoted her professional life’s work to advancing racial, color, and gender equity in workplaces and beyond. The first tenured African American woman law professor at Drexel University Kline School of Law, Professor Greene’s legal scholarship and public advocacy have generated civil rights protections for victims of discrimination throughout the United States. Through her award-winning publications and activism, Professor Greene crafted a legal blueprint for historic civil rights legislation known as the C.R.O.W.N. Acts, which has also shaped the enforcement stance of the EEOC, federal courts, administrative law judges, and civil and human rights organizations in race discrimination cases involving discrimination African descendants suffer when donning natural hairstyles. Teen Vogue, Now This News, and BBC World News have celebrated Professor Greene for her pioneering role in increasing public awareness around as well as securing legal redress for what she has coined as “grooming codes discrimination.”
