About Me

I’m an essayist 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 writing has been featured in Vogue, Harper’s Magazine, the New York Times, NPR, TIME, Forbes, LitHub and more. I also write short-form essays regularly at Medium.

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, where I teach about the role of identity in lawyering.

Current #Bookshelfie

The Patriarchs by Angela Saini
A Coastline is an Immeasurable Thing by Mary-Alice Daniel
God is a Verb by David A. Cooper
The Tragedy of Heterosexuality by Jane Ward
Exit West by Moshin Hamid
Dubliners by James Joyce