Dr. Dawn D. Bennett-Alexander, tenured associate professor of Legal Studies at the University of Georgia’s Terry College of Business, and founder of Practical Diversity, a diversity consulting business, is a magna cum laude graduate of the Federal City College (now the University of the District of Columbia), and cum laude graduate of the Howard University School of Law, both in Washington, DC. She is licensed to practice law in DC and 6 federal jurisdictions. Among other things, Professor D. Bennett-Alexander is the recipient of a 2000-2001 Fulbright Senior Scholar fellowship to teach law at the Ghana School of Law in Ghana, West Africa and conduct research on race and gender in employment and the 2011 recipient of the University of Georgia’s President’s Fulfilling the Dream award for building bridges to understanding. Dr. Bennett-Alexander has also received many diversity and teaching awards.

She publishes extensively in the Employment Law area with particular emphasis on issues of gender, race, sexual orientation, sexual harassment, and gender identity. Her articles have appeared in various respected sources and journals.