acute. we are starkly underrepresented in the ranks of general counsels. starkly underrepresented in the ranks of equity partners at large law firms. we re starkly underrepresented in academia, and i can say that from personal experience. so there is room to diversify at all levels of the legal profession. i feel like i need to call out one of my fantastic nyu students, tahliah scott, who founded her own nonprofit, legally black, to help young women, young black women going to law school to prepare for that process and to be successful in it, and she s absolutely phenomenal. we re very lucky to have her doing that kind of work. well, thanks for telling us about that, too, that s at a very individual, specific level. shout out to that. jason, your thoughts. i emphasize this because there s a thing in life and definitely in policy where people think they know something, and then they start talking based on what they think they know. i always would say respectfully, cool, let s make sur
for consensus building. there might be no opportunity for consensus building on a court that is clearly tilted toward the right with a 6-3 conservative supermajority. yeah, that s fair. you look at this pledge, i showed what rachel and others have said about it, to diversify the court, and professor, i ll remind viewers, you re raising the next generation of legal thinkers here. law is a profession that relates to who runs the country, if you look in the congress, it s the most overrepresented profession. we know the power judges have. we live under these rules whether that s ultimately who decide who has the right to choice. yet that remains incredibly imbalanced, unrepresentative system. aba says under 5% of lawyers are black, for example. very expensive these days to go to law school. the judiciary, even less so.
even obama who talked about diversifying and did it in certain ways but on federal judgeships overall, i m going to put it on the screen, just how few black women are on the federal courts writ large. all of them, not just the supreme court. obama put one black woman, partly because there were so few around at the time who were in lower courts. trump did zero. here s what biden has done in one year. of course, those other comparisons, they had more years. he already put eight on the court at the federal level and he said he would do that on the supreme court. could you talk to us for those of us who may not be aware of those disparities what that means. there s a huge disparity. women, of course, have been matriculating in law schools at the same rate as men for some time, but leaving aside the whole question of intersectionality and race and gender, even women are not reaching the top of the profession, the highest echelons of the profession. for black women, it s even more