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Tina Fernandes Botts
American philosopher and academic
Tina Fernandes Botts is an American legal scholar and philosophy professor currently teaching at the San Joaquin College of Law. [1] She is known for her work in legal hermeneutics,[2] intersectionality, feminist philosophy, and philosophy of race (particularly mixed-race theory).[3] Previous posts include Visiting Scholar at Dartmouth College; Visiting Professor of Law at University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law; Assistant Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Fresno; Visiting Assistant Professor of philosophy at Oberlin College; Fellow in Law and Philosophy at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor;[4] and Assistant Professor of Philosophy, and Faculty Associate and Area Leader in Public Policy and Diversity, at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.[5] She is the former chair of the American Philosophical Association's Committee on the Status of Black Philosophers (2013-2016).