Mikah Thompson

Prof. Mikah K. Thompson is an associate professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law in Columbia, Mo., where she teaches civil procedure, evidence, race and the law, and employment law. Her research centers on the intersection of evidentiary law and critical race theory. She also writes on the pedagogy of legal education with a particular emphasis on techniques for infusing cultural competence into the first-year law school curriculum. Prior to joining the faculty, Prof. Thompson was the director of Affirmative Action and Title IX coordinator for the UMKC campus. In that role, she coordinated the university’s response to internal complaints of discrimination, harassment and gender-based violence. She also handled the university’s response to complaints of discrimination investigated by local, state and federal administrative agencies and served as the campus’s ADA accommodations coordinator. Prof. Thompson is a certified mediator in Kansas and Missouri, and frequently provides continuing legal education in the areas of employment law, professional responsibility and implicit bias.She received her J.D. from Washington University in St. Louis.