Ewurama Okai (she/her) is a J.D./Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology at Northwestern University. Her research draws on the sociology of law and culture to examine how legal professionals imagine and engage with the future. Ewurama’s proposed dissertation, tentatively titled “Un(Making) the Future of Litigation,” explores how actors in the civil rights field construct visions of what is possible, necessary, or inevitable in the legal landscape. Through in-depth interviews and content analysis of legal scholarship, her project investigates how imagined futures shape present legal practices, discourse, and strategies. She aims to reveal how legal professionals’ cognitive and emotional orientations to the future contribute to broader processes of legal change.
Ewurama received her Ed.M. in Higher Education from Harvard University and B.A. in Political Science from Yale University.
