Black womanist scholar with a PhD from New Orleans, LA with bylines in Oprah Daily, Momentum, ZORA, Cultured. #WEOC Founder

I write about climate change/grief/justice. Author of Troubled Waters & The World is Ours to Cherish. Birmingham-bred, Mississippi-fed, New Orleans-based.

Professor, Linguistics, University of Washington// Faculty Director, Professional MS Program in Computational Linguistics (CLMS) faculty.washington.edu/ebender

Penguin Random House, Inc., the world’s largest English language trade publisher, bringing you the best in fiction, nonfiction, and children’s books.

Baddest-assed thinker, nurse, scientist, geek, wino, reproductive justice. #MakeThisAllDifferent #Number5 #WakandaForever

Author of Paying the Price, founder of the #RealCollege movement, the Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice, and Believe in Students

I write short posts laughing about the mess that is me. And long researched essays on being a better citizen of The World. We’re not free until we’re all free.

Mom, Wife, Author #ItsYourWorld, Vice-Chair/Champion of all things @ClintonFdn, @ClintonHealth, New Yorker