What Might Be: Confronting Racism to Transform Our Institutions With Susan Sturm
In the latest video from the Professors in Print series, Professor Sturm discusses the timeliness of her new book, What Might Be, and how she hopes it will inspire change agents.
Director of Columbia Law School’s Center for Institutional and Social Change and co-chair of the Davis Polk Leadership Initiative, Susan P. Sturm, George M. Jaffin Professor of Law and Social Responsibility, explores “how change agents can move beyond talk to build the architecture of full participation” in her new book, What Might Be: Confronting Racism to Transform Our Institutions.
“I wanted to write a book that would help change agents,” she says. “The ‘what might be’ is what we could create if we come together in multiracial collaborations to make these kinds of changes. The ‘what might be’ is also what might be if we don’t step up.” As for lawyers, “[they] play a critical role because we understand how power is exercised by the government and by the state,” Sturm adds. “We can equip people to be able to navigate all of the levers that are necessary in order to achieve change.”
Watch the full video interview above.