A Conversation with Ben Crump

Location: Capstone Campus Room (Capstone 101)

About Ben Crump

(Biography from Bencrump.com)

Benjamin Crump represents clients in some of the most important and contentious cases of our time, taking a place in legal history with his pursuit of justice.

His role in the Trayvon Martin, Martin Lee Anderson Boot Camp, Jannie Ligons (State of Oklahoma vs. Daniel Holtzclaw) and Robbie Tolan cases shows a legacy built around the idea that the Constitution applies to everyone, at every level of society.

Mr. Crump’s passion for advocacy has given him the privilege to fight for justice on behalf of the marginalized in our country, a calling to which he remains dedicated.

Mr. Crump has broken barriers in several legal organizations, serving as the first African-American President of the Federal Bar Association for the Northern District of Florida and the first African-American Chairman of the Florida State University College of Law Board of Directors. He is a member of the American Bar Association, American Association for Justice, The Florida Justice Association, and many other groups dedicated to the law and the pursuit of justice.

He’s received significant recognition for his service in pursuit of civil rights and justice for minorities, being included on prestigious lists like The National Trial Lawyers’ Top 100 Lawyers and Ebony Magazine’s Power 100 Most Influential African Americans. He has also received the National Urban League’s Whitney Young Award, AKA’s Eleanor Roosevelt Award, the NAACP Thurgood Marshall Award, and the SCLC’s Martin Luther King Servant Leader Award.

Crump graduated from Florida State University and received his law degree from FSU College of Law. He is married to Dr. Genae Angelique Crump.

Learn more about Mr. Crump here.

About Deena Isom

Dr. Deena Isom earned her doctorate from Emory University in 2015. Her research and teaching interests include Criminological Theory, Critical Perspectives, Social Psychology, Social Inequality & Stratification, Race & Gender, Law & Justice, and Methods & Statistics. Dr. Isom's work has been published in Criminal Justice and Behavior, Feminist Criminology, Social Science & Medicine, and Critical Sociology. Her book Whiteness and Crime: Status, Entitlement, and Privilege is forthcoming from Routledge. In 2020, Dr. Isom won a Garnet Apple Award for Excellence in Teaching from University of South Carolina.

Learn more about Dr. Isom's teaching and research on her faculty page.

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