Adjoa Aiyetoro
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Adjoa Aiyetoro is a lawyer, an activist and the former executive director of the National Conference of Black Lawyers (1993-1997). She was the chief legal consultant to the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (N'COBRA) and co-chairperson of their Reparations Coordinating Committee. She is now Professor Emerita at the William H. Bowen School of Law at the University of Arkansas, Little Rock.
Adjoa Aiyetoro received her B.A. from Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts (1967), and then graduated from George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis with a M.S.W. (1969). In 1978, she received her J.D., graduating from Saint Louis University School of Law, shortly before she was admitted to the Missouri Bar.[1] She went on to teach at the Washington College of Law (adjunct, 1997–2002), the University of California, Santa Barbara (Visiting Scholar and Professor, 2003), West Virginia University College of Law (Visiting professor, 2004), before settling into teaching at William H. Bowen School of Law since 2004, where she is now Professor Emerita. Aiyetoro taught courses on topics including Civil Procedure, Reparations and Remedies, Critical race theory, and Mass Violence.[2]