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I frequently serve as an expert for media outlets. I’ve been quoted, referenced and highlighted in publications including:
Media Mentions
- For Black Inventors, Road to Owning Patents Paved With Barriers, Bloomberg Law, July 2020
- Podcast creators of color grapple with a system that doesn’t let them own their work, Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University, July 2020
- 5 years after Charleston massacre, 4-H program helps keep Pinckney’s legacy of leadership alive, The Newsstand at Clemson University
- Advocating for others to be apolitical is unrealistic, The Reflector, February 2020
- 10 SXSW Sessions to Honor MLK Day, The Forrest Four-Cast by Hugh Forrest (SXSW Chief Programming Officer), January 2020
- Diversifying Intellectual Property Law: Why Women of Color Remain “Invisible” and How to Provide More Seats at the Table, Landslide Magazine, March 2018
- Workshops Highlights Covering App Development, Virtual Reality, Politics, and More for SXSW 2018, SXSW.com, March 2018
- Tentative Settlement Reached In Video Of Baby Grooving To Prince Song, NPR, June 2018
- Cities Should Tread Carefully on Copyright Issues, Uptown – a publication by the Municipal Association of South Carolina, November 2018
I have written both academic scholarship and public, national media-focused articles. My writing has been published in TIME, the Washington Post, Fortune, and elsewhere.
You can find a full list of my writing below.
Public Writing
- Black Women Entrepreneurs Should Play a Key Role in America’s Post-COVID Revitalization, Walker’s Legacy, November 2020
- Lawyers as Side Hustlers: How Problem-Solving and Purpose Can Lead to Entrepreneurship, After The Bar, American Bar Association, July 2020
- Diversifying Intellectual Property Law: Why Women of Color Remain “Invisible” and How to Provide More Seats at the Table, Landslide Magazine, March 2018
- Cities Should Tread Carefully on Copyright Issues, Uptown – a publication by the Municipal Association of South Carolina, November 2018
Academic Writing
As a scholar, my research sits at the intersection of law, culture, and innovation.
You can find a full list of my scholarly writing below.
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Donald Trump, Disruptive Technologies, and Twitter’s Role in the 2016 American Presidential Election, 27 Widener L.J. 39 (2018)
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Branded: Trademark Tattoos, Slave Owner Brands, And The Right To Have “Free” Skin, 22 Mich. Telecomm. & Tech. L. Rev. 225 (2016)
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An Overview of the Law of Scandalous Trademarks in the United States, American Bar Association Section of Intellectual Property Law Intellectual Property Law Conference, Mar. 2015 (co-authored with Anne Gilson LaLonde)
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Trademark Territoriality in Cyberspace: An Internet Framework for Common Law Trademarks, 29 Berkeley Tech. L. Rev. 1253 (2014) (First Place Winner, 2014 International Trademark Association Ladas Memorial Award – named best article in the world on a trademark topic)
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Memetic Theory, Trademarks & the Viral Meme Mark, 13 J. Marshall Rev. of Intell. Prop. L. 96 (2013) (Third Place Winner, 2014 International Trademark Association Ladas Memorial Award)
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Note, Peremptory Challenges: Striking Down Discrimination In Arkansas’s Jury Selection Process, 59 Ark. L. Rev. 93 (2006)