E. Tendayi Achiume

Professor
E. Tendayi Achiume
Academic background
Alma materAtlantic College
Yale University
Yale Law School
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Constitutional Court of South Africa

E. Tendayi Achiume is a Professor of Law and former Faculty Director of the Promise Institute for Human Rights at the University of California, Los Angeles. She served as the United Nations special rapporteur on Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance from her appointment in September 2017 until November 2022. She was the first woman appointed to this position since its creation in 1993.