Dawn D. Bennett-Alexander

Writer Bennett-Alexander met Laura Hartman at an Academy of Legal Studies in Business conference in the 1990s and they co-authored college text books, beginning with Employment Law for Business, the first Employment Law textbook for colleges of business. Other important publications written by Bennett-Alexander are: "Sexual Harassment in the Office", in Personnel Administrator in 1988; "The State of Affirmative Action in Employment: A Post Stotts Retrospective" in the American Business Law Journal in 1990, "Hostile Environment Sexual Harassment: A Clearer View" in the Labor Law Journal in 1991; and The Legal, Ethical & Regulatory Environment of Business, published in 1996. In 2011, Bennett-Alexander co-authored The Legal, Ethical and Regulatory Environment of Business in a Diverse Society. Bennett-Alexander wrote My Hair Is Not Like Yours: Workplace Hair Grooming Policies for African American Women as Racial Stereotyping in Violation of Title VII in 2016 with Linda F. Harrison.

Bennett-Alexander and her three daughters contributed to the book Children of the Dream : our own stories of growing up Black in America. Her daughters are Jennifer Dawn Bennett-Alexander, Anne Alexis Bennett-Alexander, and Tess Alexander Bennett-Harrison. Bennett-Alexander, who is driven by the men and women who walked and struggled before her, researched her family's history to share with her daughters. She learned the strength of her enslaved great-grandmother who bore a lifetime scar on her face that she received fighting off a sexual attack by the landowner. Bennett-Alexander states that her ancestors created the opportunities that led to her success today. She has been inspired by the photograph of The Boss, taken by Prentice (P. H.) Polk. Dressed in clothing of enslaved women, the woman in the photograph "has more dignity and more common sense than many people whose wealth or academic degrees indicate in their stature".

Foster tolerance and acceptance To teach her students the "reality besides their own", Bennett-Alexander has studied the Holocaust and the ways in which Americans have treated African Americans during the years of slavery and Native Americans during the forced displacement conducted with the Trail of Tears.

Membership Bennett-Alexander was the president of the Southeastern Academy of Legal Studies in Business from 1992 to 1993. She was a co-chair of the Employment Law Section of the organization from 1992 to 1994. and President's Martin Luther King Jr. Fulfilling the Dream Award while she was at the University of Georgia. She founded the Dawn D. Bennett-Alexander Building Bridges Scholarship for qualified students who pursue diversity and inclusiveness in their studies. She started the scholarship fund with the $25,000 award that she received when received the National Elizabeth Hurlock Beckman Excellence in Teaching Award.

Publications Legal books

Non-fiction book chapters and articles (two chapters) (personal narrative)

Five entries: Employment Discrimination, Equal Opportunity, National Origin Discrimination, Comparable Worth, and Race Discrimination. My Hair Is Not Like Yours: Workplace Hair Grooming Policies for African American Women as Racial Stereotyping in Violation of Title VII, 22 Cardozo J.L. & Gender 437, 2015–2016, with linda f. harrison

Fictional books The Quilt Journeys Mystery Series with Renée T. H. Patterson