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Tanya Katerí Hernández, a Class of 1986 Brown graduate, is the Archibald R. Murray Professor of Law at Fordham University, and an associate director of its Center on Race, Law and Justice. Earlier in her career, Hernández was a staff attorney at Brooklyn Legal Services, a fellow at the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy, and a law clerk for U.S. District Judge Jaime Pieras Jr. in Puerto Rico. Hernández is a Fulbright Scholar, and a fellow of the American Law Institute, the American Bar Foundation, and the Puerto Rico Academy of Jurisprudence and Legislation. In 2024, New York City Comptroller Brad Lander awarded Hernández a commendation for "extraordinary contributions to anti-racism;" and in 2007, Hispanic Business Magazine selected her as one of its annual 100 Most Influential Hispanics. Her publications include amongst others: “Racial Subordination in Latin America”; “Customary Law and the New Civil Rights Response”; Multiracials and Civil Rights”; and Racial Innocence”. Currently under contract with Beacon Press is her next book, “(Under) Counting Blackness Across the Globe: The Civil Rights Crisis of Census Racial Erasure.”