CURRICULUM VITAE. DICKINSON SCHOOL OF LAW OFFICE: (717) W. SOUTH STREET MOBILE: (717) CARLISLE, PA 17013

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1 CURRICULUM VITAE CARLA D. PRATT Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Nancy J. LaMont Faculty Scholar PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY DICKINSON SCHOOL OF LAW OFFICE: (717) W. SOUTH STREET MOBILE: (717) CARLISLE, PA ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, DICKINSON SCHOOL OF LAW Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Carlisle ( and present) Professor of Law Full Professor with tenure since 2007 Associate Professor Assistant Professor Courses: Constitutional Law I and II, Criminal Law, Race and the Law Seminar, Professional Responsibility, Criminal Law and Contracts. Research interests: The intersection of race and the law with emphasis on the legal construction of racial identity and the role of race in the legal profession. TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW (formerly Texas Wesleyan) Professor of Law (July 2008 May 2009) Courses: Federal Indian Law; Constitutional Law PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS STANDING ROCK SIOUX SUPREME COURT Associate Justice (April 2012-present) PUBLICATIONS BOOKS AND BOOK CHAPTERS THE END OF THE PIPELINE: A JOURNEY OF RECOGNITION FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS ENTERING THE LEGAL PROFESSION (Co-authored with Dr. Dorothy Evensen, PSU College of Education) (2011 Carolina Academic Press).

2 Loving in Indian Territory: Tribal Miscegenation Law in Historical Perspective appearing in LOVING V. VIRGINIA IN A POST-RACIAL WORLD: RETHINKING RACE, SEX AND MARRIAGE (Kevin Noble Maillard & Rose Cuison Villazor eds., 2012). Hip Hop Prosecutors Heeding the Call for Criminal Justice Reform appearing in HIP HOP AND THE LAW: THE KEY WRITINGS THAT FORMED THE MOVEMENT (andre douglass pond cummings et al. Carolina Academic Press, forthcoming 2014). LAW REVIEW ARTICLES The End of Indeterminacy in Affirmative Action, VAL. U. L. REV. (forthcoming 2014). Judging Identity T. JEFFERSON L. REV. (forthcoming 2014). Sisters In Law: Black Women Lawyers Struggle for Advancement 2012 MICH. ST. L. REV.1777 (2012). Way to Represent: The Role of Black Lawyers in Contemporary American Democracy, 77 FORDHAM L. REV (2009). Loving Indian Style: Maintaining Racial Caste and Tribal Sovereignty Through Sexual Assimilation, 2007 WISCONSIN L. REV Taking Diversity Seriously: Affirmative Action And The Democratic Role of Law Schools: A Response To Professor Brown 43 HOUSTON L. J. 55 (2006). Tribes and Tribulations: Beyond Sovereign Immunity and Toward Reparation and Reconciliation for the Estelusti 11 WASH. & LEE. R.E.A.L. J. 61 (2005). TRIBAL KULTURKAMPF: The Role of Race Ideology in Constructing Native American Identity 35 SETON HALL L. REV (2005). Should Klansmen Be Lawyers? Racism As An Ethical Barrier to the Legal Profession, 30 FLA. ST. L. REV. 857 (2003). In the Wake of Hopwood: An Update on Affirmative Action in the Education Arena, 42 HOW. L. J. 451 (Spring 1999). POPULAR PRESS PUBLICATIONS Law School : Still A Good Investment for African Americans, NATIONAL LAW JOURNAL (Sept. 3, 2012). Slavery s Long Shadow, Tribal Rights vs. Racial Justice, NEW YORK TIMES, Room for Debate (Sept. 16, Page 2 of 10

3 2011). Discover Your Inner Racist, The Lancaster Voice (Jan./Feb Vol.4; no. 1). The Case for Diversity: Enhancing the Legal Profession, THE PENNSYLVANIA LAWYER, (March/April 2006). Essay, To Assimilate or Not to Assimilate? That Is The Question, AFRICAN AMERICAN LAW SCHOOL SURVIVAL GUIDE: INFORMATION, ADVICE AND STRATEGIES TO PREPARE YOU FOR THE CHALLENGES OF THE LAW SCHOOL EXPERIENCE (Evangeline M. Mitchel, Editor) Cosby Speaks To His Community: His Message Neglects Hard Facts of Racism, THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, May 28, SELECTED PRESENTATIONS Panelist, AALS Annual Meeting Workshop, Access to Legal Education, New York, NY (Jan. 5, 2014). Panelist, The Role of Associate Deans, Diversity in Law School Leadership Conference, University of Washington, Seattle, WA (Oct , 2013). Constitution Day Speaker, The Indeterminacy and Double Bind of Affirmative Action, Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County (Sept. 17, 2013). Panelist, Rethinking Law School Admissions After Fisher, Opportunity or Blockage? Fisher v. Texas and the Educational Pipeline to the Legal Profession, American Bar Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (August 9, 2013). Panelist, The End of Indeterminacy in Affirmative Action, Post Fisher: The Future of Diversity in Law School Admissions, National Bar Assn. Annual Meeting, Miami, FL (July 29, 2013). Panelist, African Americans Path to the Profession, Diversity in the Legal Profession Symposium, Widener Law School, Wilmington, DE (April 25, 2013). Panelist, Diversity In Law School Classrooms, Diversity in Legal Education and the Legal Profession: A Symposium Honoring Indiana Chief Justice Randall T. Shepard, Valparaiso University Law School (April 19, 2013). Panelist, Judging Identity: The Relationship Between Tribal Sovereignty and the Identity of Judges, Her Honor: Women in the Judiciary, 13 th Annual Women and the Law Conference, Thomas Jefferson School of Law (Feb. 8, 2013). Page 3 of 10

4 Keynote Speaker, The End of the Pipeline, National Black Pre-Law Conference and Law Fair, Houston, TX (Nov. 2, 2012). Presenter, Navigating the BA to JD Pipeline, SALT Workshop, Florida International University, Miami, FL (Oct. 26, 2012). Presenter, The End of the Pipeline: A Journey of Recognition for African Americans Entering the Legal Profession, NALP Diversity and Inclusion Summit, Atlanta, GA (June 7-8, 2012). Presenter, SYMPOSIUM: GENDER AND THE LEGAL PROFESSION S PIPELINE TO POWER, Sisters In Law: Black Women Lawyers Struggle for Advancement, Michigan State Univ. Law School (April 13, 2012). Lecturer, Standing Your Ground and The Trayvon Martin Case, The Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA (March 28, 2012). Panelist, A Dred Scott Revival: At the Intersection of Citizenship, Race and Originalism at Law Culture and Humanities Conference, Texas Wesleyan University, Ft. Worth, Texas (March 17, 2012). Keynote Speaker, The End of the Pipeline, Skadden Arps/CUNY Pipeline Program, New York, NY (Feb. 10, 2012). Presenter, The End of the Pipeline: A Journey of Recognition for African Americans Entering the Legal Profession, Georgetown Law (January 30, 2012). Moderator and Planning Committee Member, AALS Annual Meeting, Workshop on the Future of the Legal Profession and Legal Education, Innovations at the Intersections of Scholarship, Teaching and Practice and Organizing and Financing Law Schools, Washington, D.C. (January 5, 2012). Speaker, IndiVisible: African-Native American Lives in the Americas, Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, Native American Professional Network (NAPN) New York, NY, (Nov. 30, 2011). Panelist, Dred in Indian Country, Prosecution, Defense, and Sentencing in Indian Country: Race and Criminal Justice in the West Conference, Gonzaga Law School, Spokane, WA (Sept. 24, 2011). Panelist with Dr. Dorothy Evensen, THE END OF THE PIPELINE: A JOURNEY OF RECOGNITION FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS ENTERING THE LEGAL PROFESSION. National Bar Association Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD (August 2011). Presenter, Lutie A. Lytle Black Women Law Faculty Workshop, Racial Stratification in the Legal Profession, Texas Southern University School of Law, Houston, TX (June 16-19, 2011). Panelist, Law and Society Conference, Race and Lawyering: Slave Lawyers, Black Lawyers and the HBCU, The Journey to the Legal Profession for Black Laywers, San Francisco, CA (June 2-5, 2011). Page 4 of 10

5 Book Commentator, LOVING IN A POST-RACIAL WORLD: NEW LEGAL APPROACHES TO INTERRACIAL MARRIAGES AND RELATIONSHIPS (Kevin Noble Maillard & Rose Cuison Villazor eds., 2011), Michigan State University School of Law (Feb. 2011). Panelist, SALT Teaching Conference: Teaching In a Transformative Era: The Law School of the Future, African Americans Graduating From Law School At The Millennium, Univ. of Hawaii, (Dec , 2010). Panelist, From Cottonfields to Courtrooms: The Evolving Path To The Legal Profession for Blacks, LatCrit XV, Denver, CO (Oct. 7-10, 2010). Panelist, The End of the Pipeline in the New Millennium: Using Stories from New African American Attorneys to Inform Theories of Intervention, Third National People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference, Seton Hall University School of Law (Sept. 9-12, 2010). Panelist, Post Racialism In Indian Country, AALS Workshop on Post Racial Civil Rights Law, Politics and Legal Education: New and Old Color Lines in the Age of Obama, New York, NY (June 8-10, 2010). Panelist, Race, Class and the Formation of Law and Legal Systems, Center for Study of Working Class Life, Stony Brook University (June ). Roundtable Discussant, Diversity in the Legal Profession: Equality and Justice in the Obama Era, SE/SWPOCC, Univ. of S. Carolina School of Law (March 26, 2010). Panelist, LatCrit XIV, Loving in Indian Territory: Tribal Miscegenation Law in Historical Perspective, American University School of Law (October 2, 2009). Presenter, Whiteness in Indian Country, White Spaces Conference, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK (July 8, 2009). Roundtable Discussion Leader, Critical Race 20 Conference, Critical Race Theory and Indigenous Peoples, University of Iowa College of Law (April 2-4, 2009). Presenter, Lawyering at the Intersection of Race, Class and Culture, At The Intersection of Culture, Race & Class, Phoenix School of Law, Phoenix, AZ (March 26-29, 2009). Presenter, Lessons From The Hip Hop Generation s Entry Into The Legal Profession, The Evolution of Street Knowledge: Hip Hop s Influence on Law and Culture, West Virginia University (Feb , 2009). MLK Day Speaker, Is Obama Evidence of a Post Racial America? National Bar Association, Homer S. Brown Law Association, Pittsburgh, PA (Jan. 19, 2009). Page 5 of 10

6 Presenter, LatCrit XIII, From Slave to Freedman: Slavery s Influence on Contemporary Notions of Indianness, Seattle University School of Law (Oct. 2008). Presenter, The Role of the Black Lawyer in American Democracy, Colloquium on The Role of the Lawyer in Contemporary Democracy, sponsored by the Stein Ethics Center, Fordham Univ. School of Law (Sept. 2008). Presenter, Law Defining Existence: Exploring the Psychological Corollary To The Legal Illegitimation Of Multiracial Identity International Congress of Law and Mental Health, Padua, Italy (June 25-30, 2007). Presenter, The Racialization of Indian Identity: Tribal Sovereignty at the Tipping Point, Federal Bar Association, 32 nd Annual Indian Law Conference (April 20, 2007). Commentator, Tribes and Tribulations With the Freedmen, Worlds Apart TV, Harrisburg, PA (March 27, 2007). Symposium Presenter, Loving Indian Style: Maintaining Racial Caste and Tribal Sovereignty Through Sexual Assimilation University of Wisconsin (November 10, 2006). Panelist Speaker, The First and The Forced: The Role of Law In Constructing an Africanless Indian Identity University of Kansas and Haskell Indian Nations University (Nov. 9, 2006). Native American History Month Speaker, The Role of Law In Constructing an Africanless Indian Identity, Ithaca College (Oct. 30, 2006). Speaker, Faculty Colloquium, The Role of Tribal Miscegenation Law in the Struggle To Maintain Tribal Sovereignty University of Tulsa School of Law (Oct. 13, 2006). Presenter, Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting, Inter-Group Conflict and Coalition (Jan. 6, 2006). Commentator, Fox News, The O Reilly Factor (Race and the Death Penalty The case of Tookie Williams (Dec. 15, 2005). Commentator, Voices of Indian Territory (Dec. 1, 2005). Commentator, University of Houston Law School, The Frankel Lecture, Taking Diversity Seriously: Affirmative Action and the Democratic Role of Law Schools: A Response To Professor Brown (Nov. 3, 2005). Commentator, Fox News, The O Reilly Factor (Personal responsibility in low income Black communities) June 30, Page 6 of 10

7 SELECTED SERVICE SERVICE TO LEGAL EDUCATION ABA, Site Inspection Team Member, Mercer University School of Law (Feb. 2014) LSAC, Member, Diversity Committee, July Present Member, HBCU, HACU, TCU Subcommittee, July Present Member, Investment Policy Oversight Committee, July June 2013 AALS, Annual Meeting Workshop Planning Committee, July 2011-January 2012 Editor, AALS Minority Groups Section Newsletter, Outside Reviewer for Promotion and Tenure Applications: Syracuse University College of Law ; University of Seattle, College of Arts and Sciences, Dept. of Political Science ; Denver University Sturm College of Law SERVICE TO THE LEGAL PROFESSION Pro Bono Counsel, represent indigent man in effort to recoup embezzled pension fund (Jan present). Co Vice-Chair, Pennsylvania Bar Association, Committee on Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility (member , present; Co Vice-Chair May 2005-June 2008). Diversity Workshop, Mid-Penn Legal Services (Oct. 28, 2005) Pro Bono Counsel, Represented single mother pro bono in child support matter in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania Pro Bono Counsel, Represented non-custodial parent in child support matter in Cumberland County, PA (2003). Course Planner and Presenter, Pennsylvania Bar Institute, Preventing and Responding to Claims of Malpractice, (April 2002). Pro Bono Counsel, Represented elderly woman in obtaining her pension ( ). Course Planner and Presenter, Pennsylvania Bar Institute, 10 Tips for Avoiding Client Grievances, presented in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, PA, (April 2001). Philadelphia Volunteers for the Indigent, Pro Bono Attorney ( ). Page 7 of 10

8 SERVICE TO PENN STATE LAW AND THE UNIVERSITY Institutional Review Team Chair, A Framework to Foster Diversity at Penn State (part of PSU s diversity strategic planning process) Member, Planning Committee, PSU College of Education, Civil Rights Conference Member, Search Committee for the Director of Global Engagement; University Park, Ally Member, Penn State President s Commission on LGBT Equity, July June Institutional Review Team Member, A Framework to Foster Diversity at Penn State (part of PSU s diversity strategic planning process) Served on the following law school committees during tenure as a law professor: Faculty Appointments, Faculty Rights and Responsibilities, Admissions, Strategic Planning, Promotion and Tenure, Sabbatical, Honor Code, Diversity, Curriculum, Teaching, Library, Clinics and Experiential Learning, and Academic Rules. Orientation Lecturer, The Role of Lawyers in American Society, August 2011 and Lecturer, Penn State Law Review Scholarly Dialogue Series, Identity and Lawyering in Contemporary American Democracy, Nov. 10, Admissions Recruiter and Presenter, National Black Pre-Law Conference, Dallas, TX (2006) and Houston, TX ( ). Moderator, Town Meeting: Strengthening Ties and Celebrating Diversity Through Shared Experiences, Penn State Dickinson School of Law (Feb. 2, 2006). Faculty Advisor, Frederick Douglass Moot Court Team ; ; ; Chair, Assistant Dean of Students Search Committee Law School Representative, PA Board of Law Examiners, Spring ; Spring Secretary of the Faculty -- Penn State Dickinson School of Law, AY Admissions Recruiter and Presenter, So You Want To Go To Law School? PSU Schreyer Honors College (Feb. 2004). Faculty Advisor, PSU/DSL Black Law Students Association (BLSA) ; 2010-Present. Coordinator, Black History Month Speaker 2005, 2006, Presenter, How To Take A Law School Exam, BLSA (Fall 2004 and 2005). Page 8 of 10

9 Presenter, Assimilation Into Law School, BLSA (Fall 2003). Faculty Advisor and Coach, PSU/DSL National Appellate Moot Court Team (2001). Faculty Advisor, PSU/DSL Minority Law Students Association (MLSA) Faculty Advisor to the Dickinson Law Review, Fall 2000-Spring SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY Capital Campaign Steering Committee, Bison Foundation of the Carlisle Area School District (responsible for working with professional fundraising organization to develop and implement fundraising strategy). Board Member, United Way of Carlisle and Cumberland County, Aug July Board Member, NAACP Greater Carlisle Unit, (currently member only). Chair, Legal Redress Committee, NAACP Greater Carlisle Unit, Board Member, Carlisle Area Health and Wellness Foundation, Aug Nov Commissioner, Carlisle Area School District Tax Commission, Oct Dec Vice Chair, Board of Directors, Methodist Services For Children (Board member from , Vice Chair )(responsible for CEO oversight and fundraising). LEGAL EXPERIENCE Drinker Biddle & Reath, L.L.P., Philadelphia, PA Associate ( ) Litigation Department: Emphasis in Employment and Contract litigation. Represented clients in litigation from inception through trial. New Jersey Division of Law, Trenton, New Jersey Deputy Attorney General ( ) Insurance Section: Represented the Department of Insurance and State Health Insurance Boards; advised client agencies on various legal issues. Represented client agencies in litigation before the Appellate and Law Divisions of the Superior Court and the Office of Administrative Law. Page 9 of 10

10 Paul, Hastings; Los Angeles, CA (1992) Associate Litigation Department: Drafted pleadings, assisted in conducting discovery, drafted letters on behalf of and to clients, supervised filing of pleadings with the court, conducted research and drafted legal memoranda. PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Member, AALS Section on Minority Groups, present Member, American Bar Association, Section on Legal Education present Member, Penn State Forum on Black Affairs 2000-present Member, Barristers Association of Philadelphia, Member, Cumberland County Bar Association, Member, Howard Univ. School of Law Alumni Assn, Philadelphia Chapter, Assistant Secretary 1999; currently member at large of HUSLAA Member, National Bar Association ; and 2005-present Secretary to the Law Professors Section 2001 Member, National Bar Association, Women Lawyers Division, Philadelphia Chapter Member, Pennsylvania Bar Association, Committee on Legal Ethics , Member, Philadelphia Bar Association Member, Philadelphia Bar Association Committee on Women in the Profession Member, Society of American Law Teachers (Life Member) BAR MEMBERSHIP Supreme Court of New Jersey Supreme Court of Pennsylvania EDUCATION Howard University School of Law, Washington, D.C. Juris Doctor, cum laude, May, 1992; Class Rank 4 American Jurisprudence Awards: Contracts, Administrative Law, and Professional Responsibility Dean's Recognition Awards: Federal Taxation, American Jurisprudence and Law Journal Merit Scholarship Recipient Howard Law Journal, Technical Editor Research Assistant for Dean Henry Ramsey, Jr. Texas A & M University- Commerce, Commerce, Texas B.A., English, May, 1989 Page 10 of 10