Lani Guiner

Lani Guiner has been a professor at the University of Pennyslvania School of Law[?] since 1992. In 1974, she graduated from Yale Law School[?]. She served seven years as a litigator for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Guiner is an advocate of cumulative voting.

President Clinton nominated Guinier to be Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights[?], but later withdrew her nomination.

Quotes

• "Gifted with second sight, we can share our stories ... build coalitions, develop a voice. ... We shall speak until all the people gain a voice." (1994)
• "If we can't talk about race, then when we talk about crime, we're really talking about other things, and it means that we're not being honest in acknowledging what the problem is."