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Mehrsa Baradaran

Professor of Law at UC Irvine; Author of "The Color of Money" & "How the Other Half Banks"

Mehrsa Baradaran
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Civil Rights, DEI, Diversity & Inclusion, Finance, Gender Equality, Government, Human Resources, Law, Social Activism, Social Justice
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Mehrsa Baradaran Biography

Mehrsa Baradaran is a professor of law at UCI Law. Previously, she was the Robert Cotten Alston Chair in Corporate Law and Associate Dean for strategic initiatives with a focus on diversity and inclusion efforts and national and international faculty scholarship recognition at the University of Georgia School of Law.

Baradaran writes about banking law, financial inclusion, inequality, and the racial wealth gap. Her scholarship includes the books How the Other Half Banks and The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap, both published by the Harvard University Press. The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap was awarded the Best Book of the Year by the Urban Affairs Association, the PROSE Award Honorable Mention in the Business, Finance & Management category. Baradaran was also selected as a finalist at the 2018 Georgia Author of the Year Awards for the book in the category of history/biography.

Baradaran has also published articles including "Jim Crow Credit" in the Irvine Law Review, "Regulation by Hypothetical" in the Vanderbilt Law Review, "It's Time for Postal Banking" in the Harvard Law Review Forum, "Banking and the Social Contract" in the Notre Dame Law Review, "How the Poor Got Cut Out of Banking" in the Emory Law Journal, "Reconsidering the Separation of Banking and Commerce" in the George Washington Law Review and "The ILC and the Reconstruction of U.S. Banking" in the SMU Law Review. Of note, her article "The New Deal with Black America" was selected for presentation at the 2017 Stanford/Harvard/Yale Junior Faculty Forum.

Baradaran and her books have received significant national and international media coverage and have been featured in the New York Times, the Atlantic, Slate, American Banker, the Wall Street Journal and Financial Times; on National Public Radio’s “Marketplace,” C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal” and Public Broadcasting Service’s “NewsHour;” and as part of TEDxUGA. She has advised U.S. Senators and Congressmen on policy, testified before the U.S. Congress, and spoken at national and international forums like the U.S. Treasury and the World Bank.

She earned her bachelor's degree cum laude from Brigham Young University and her law degree cum laude from NYU, where she served as a member of the New York University Law Review.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 08/01/2024.

Mehrsa Baradaran Videos

  • Structural and Spatial Inequalities: Mehrsa Baradaran
    Structural and Spatial Inequalities: Mehrsa Baradaran
    "The Color of Money," presentation by Mehrsa Baradaran, Professor of Law, University of California, Irvine; session Q&A with Jamila Michener,...
  • Bold v Old: Mehrsa Baradaran
    Bold v Old: Mehrsa Baradaran
    Mehrsa Baradaran speaking on postal banking, March 14th, 2019, at Bold v Old in Washington DC. Elected officials, organizers, thought leaders and...
  • How the Other Half Banks: A Book Talk with Mehrsa Baradaran
    How the Other Half Banks: A Book Talk with Mehrsa Baradaran
    Professor Mehrsa Baradaran of the University of Georgia School of Law discusses her book: How the Other Half Banks Exclusion, Exploitation, and the...
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Mehrsa Baradaran Books

  • The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
    The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
  • How the Other Half Banks: Exclusion, Exploitation, and the Threat to Democracy
    How the Other Half Banks: Exclusion, Exploitation, and the Threat to Democracy

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