About Me
photograph by Senay Inanici
I’m an essayist, speaker, and professor. My first book, Don’t Let It Get You Down: Essays on Race, Gender and the Body was published by Simon & Schuster in July 2021 and is available at booksellers and libraries across the country. My second book, Good Woman: A Reckoning will be published in 2026 and is available for preorder at Amazon, BarnesandNoble, Bookshop.org, Booksamillion, Target, Walmart, and booksellers everywhere.
My writing has been featured in Vogue, Harper’s Magazine, the New York Times, NPR, TIME, Forbes, LitHub, BookRiot and more. I helped created the Peabody Award-winning podcast The Promise. I direct the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice at UC Berkeley, School of Law.
If you’d like to book me for a speaking engagement, please reach out to Christie Hinrichs at Authors Unbound via requests@authorsunbound. If you’d like to book me for your book club, please use my contact form.
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