Ms. E. Tendayi Achiume is the fifth Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, and the first woman to serve in this role since its creation. She is currently Professor of Law at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Law, and she also a Research Associate of the African Center for Migration and Society (ACMS) at the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa. The current focus of her scholarship is the global governance of racism and xenophobia; and the legal and ethical implications of colonialism for contemporary international migration. She has published widely, including in the Stanford Law Review, Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law and the Georgetown Journal of International Law. In 2016, Professor Achiume co-chaired the Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law (ASIL), and she currently serves as co-chair of ASIL's Migration Law Interest Group. She is the Faculty Director of the Promise Institute for Human Rights at UCLA Law, where she is also a core faculty member of the Critical Race Studies Program and the Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy. She earned her B.A. from Yale University and her J.D. from Yale Law School.