Susan Kiyomi Serrano

Susan Kiyomi Serrano is the Research Director of the Equal Justice Society, a national organization dedicated to changing law and policy through progressive legal theory and practice. From 2000-2001, Ms. Serrano served as the Thurgood Marshall Fellow at the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area, where she worked primarily in the areas of race and immigration. Prior to joining the Lawyers' Committee, Ms. Serrano clerked for the Honorable Robert G. Klein of the Hawai`i Supreme Court. She is also a co-founder of the Justice Collective: A Center for Race Theory in Action, a progressive think tank.

Ms. Serrano received her J.D. from the University of Hawai`i School of Law in 1998, where she was the Articles Editor for the University of Hawai`i Law Review. During law school, she worked at the Hawai`i Civil Rights Commission in the areas of housing, employment and public accommodations discrimination and also worked with indigenous Hawaiian communities on issues of access to governmental decision-making processes. Ms. Serrano is licensed to practice law in California and Hawai`i.

Ms. Serrano has published in the areas of civil rights, critical race theory, administrative law, and human rights. Her most recent publications include, Korematsu v. U.S.: A Constant Caution in A Time of Crisis, 10 Asian Law Journal 37 (2003) (co-authored with Dale Minami) and American Racial Justice on Trial-Again: African American Reparations, Human Rights, and the War on Terror, 101 Michigan Law Review 1269 (2003) (co-authored with Eric K. Yamamoto & Michelle Natividad Rodriguez). In 1997, Ms. Serrano won the Trina Grillo Award for Best Student Paper in Critical Race Theory for her article, Rethinking Race for Strict Scrutiny Purposes: Yniguez and the Racialization of English Only, 19 University of Hawai`i Law Review 221 (1997).

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