Jennifer Lackey is the Founding Director of the Northwestern Prison Education Program, the Wayne and Elizabeth Jones Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Law (courtesy) at Northwestern University, and Senior Research Associate at the African Centre for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science at the University of Johannesburg.
Most of her research is in social epistemology with a current focus on issues involving credibility assessments within the American criminal legal system and epistemic reparations. Lackey is the winner of the Dr. Martin R. Lebowitz and Eve Lewellis Lebowitz Prize for Philosophical Achievement and Contribution and she has received grants and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.