“Representation matters: It is easier for young girls of color to aspire to reach their highest goals when they see others who have done so before them, in the same way that women like Jane Bolin, Constance Baker Motley and Julia Cooper Mack encouraged Ketanji Brown Jackson to reach hers,” Sharon D. Wright Austin writes. “I hope that her service lays a foundation for the Supreme Court, and this country, to become more inclusive of diverse perspectives and life experiences.”
Sharon D. Wright Austin
Sharon D. Wright Austin is a professor of political science at the University of Florida. Wright earned a doctorate in political science in 1993. She also taught in the Pan African Studies Department at the University of Louisville and later in Political Science/African American Studies Departments at the Universities of Missouri and Florida.