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Barbara McQuade is a professor from practice at the University of Michigan Law School, her alma mater, where she teaches courses in criminal law, criminal procedure, national security, and data privacy. She is also a legal analyst for NBC News and MSNBC, and co-host of the #SistersInLaw podcast. From 2010 to 2017, McQuade served as the US Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan. She was appointed by President Barack Obama and was the first woman to serve in her position. Earlier in her career, she worked as a sportswriter and copy editor, a judicial law clerk, an associate in private practice, and an assistant US attorney. McQuade is author of the national bestseller, Attack from Within. She and her husband have four children and live in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
McQuade will be in conversation with Stephen Henderson, a native Detroiter who has more than 30 years of journalism experience as a writer and editor, and a deep-rooted connection with the city that birthed him. A winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Henderson has also won more than two dozen other national awards for writing and editing. He was honored in 2014 as Journalist of the Year by the National Association of Black Journalists. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan and University of Detroit Jesuit High School. Henderson is a founder of BridgeDetroit, a non-profit news organization that prioritizes issues that Detroiters themselves identify as critical. He is also the founder of The Tuxedo Project, a literary arts and community center located in Henderson’s childhood home. He hosts the daily radio show “Created Equal” on WDET 101.9FM, Detroit’s public radio station, and is involved in two weekly shows on Detroit PBS. Henderson is the host of “American Black Journal” and regularly contributes to “One Detroit.”