Dr. Wilson is a nationally recognized Legal Scholar, Justice Advocate & Policy Expert with extensive expertise in Equal Protection Jurisprudence, as well as 4th, 5th, 6th, & 13th, 14th, 15th Amendment law, police & scholarship; coalition building; community organizing; policy promulgation; and movement building. They are also a leading expert in critical race theory, constitutional law, criminal procedure and racial, criminal, gender and social justice. Their work is multidisciplinary and geared toward both critical theory and enduring impact. As the visionary Founding Director of the Center for The Study of Black Life and The Law, Dr. Wilson led transformative policy reform initiatives and fostered deep community engagement across the state of Minnesota, including trainings, workshops and CLE’s concerning modern and historical legal trends and their impacts on equal protection and racial, gender and class equity. Dr. Wilson has worked with legislators, county attorneys, sheriffs and peace officers across the nation on best practices regarding race, gender, class and sexuality with particular emphasis on excessive force and criminal investigation policies. Adept in public speaking, legal writing, and advocacy; they are committed to advancing and democratizing legal knowledge and pioneering collaborative solutions across ideological and social groups.

They were a finalist for the Trail Blazer Award by the MN POC Pride Association in 2024, awarded the Equity & Justice Award by the Minnesota Lavender Bar Associated in 2023, inducted into the International Martin Luther King Jr. Collegium of Scholars at Morehouse College in 2022 and honored as the first Inaugural Changemaker of the Year Award winner by the Student Bar Association 2022. Their last paper, Sexual Profiling & BlaQueer Furtivity: BlaQueers On The Run, was awarded the “Ezekiel Webber Prize for Best Paper in Law & Gender” and republished by the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law in 2023. Their next article, concerning Black Trans Youth and Extralegal Violence—Black, Trans(gressive) Lives: Furtive Blackness & The Surround of Extralegal Violence—will be published by the Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law, and was presented as part of the 2025 Biennial Symposium on Gender and Sexuality Law: Transcendence: Legal Efforts to Protect and Advance LGBTQIA+ Youth Rights’ “Best Constitutional Arguments for Trans Rights” panel in March 2025.

Their manuscript and next several articles, in early drafts, concern the interplay between race, criminal procedure and AI surveillance, and also examine case law from reconstruction to the present, and concerns how strict scrutiny and the 14th amendment have again been inverted to bar state, and chill private, efforts to ensure equal protection to Black people and other non-white minorities; as a cyclical backlash to Black progress, marking white political power as a compelling state interest and the aforementioned limitations as narrowly tailored interventions. Dr. Wilson’s work and commentary has been published or featured by the NYT, MN Star Tribune, Gawker, CBS, NPR, MPR, Kansas City Star, Newsweek, ABC, Grist, The Guardian UK, TruthOut, Law & Crime, Fox 9, The Black Youth Project, The Christian Science Monitor, Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law, Tulane Journal of Law & Sexuality, The Hastings Constitutional Quarterly, The Scholar: St. Mary’s Law Review on Race and Social Justice, the Critical Black Studies Reader and many more.

Courses & Areas of Expertise: Criminal Law; Criminal Procedure; Constitutional Liberties; Jurisprudence; Critical Race Theory (I & II); Race, Law and Society; Slavery & the Law; Racism & American Law; Law & Sexuality/Gender; Slavery & The Law; Law & Humanities; Democratic Theory; American History; Modern Politics; Black History; Black Political Thought; Queer Theory; Civil Rights; Reconstruction Amendments; 1st Amendment; Political Theory; AntiBlackness & The Law; Public Policy; Social Movements.