Gloria J. Browne-Marshall is an Emmy award-winning writer, social justice attorney, and playwright. She is a tenured full professor of Constitutional Law at John Jay College (CUNY) where she created the course Literature, Race, and Law. She was a Resident Fellow at the Institute of Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School as well as a Visiting Professor there. Gloria received the American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel Award. She attended the MFA Program at Sarah Lawrence College and the Lighthouse Book Project, in Denver. Browne-Marshall is a writer of nonfiction books, short stories, essays, and a new stage-play that explores the American Dream. Her books include She Took Justice, The Voting Rights War, SHOT: Caught A Soul as well as Race, Law, and American Society and A Protest History of the United States.