Sheryll Cashin, professor of law at Georgetown University, is the author of Place, Not Race: A New Vision of Opportunity in America (Beacon), as well as The Agitator's Daughter and The Failures of Integration. Born and raised in Huntsville, Alabama, where her parents were political activists, Cashin was a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and served in the Clinton White House as an advisor on urban and economic policy. She lives with her husband and two sons in Washington, D.C.
