"She is the Maya Angelou Presidential Chair at Wake Forest University, where she is the founding director of the Anna Julia Cooper Center. Here's professor and editor-at-large at Elle.com..."
Melissa Harris-Perry is the Maya Angelou presidential chair at Wake Forest University. There, she is the executive director of the Pro Humanitate Institute and founding director of the Anna Julia Cooper Center. Harris-Perry is Editor-at-Large at Elle.com. She hosted the television show Melissa Harris-Perry from 2012–16 on weekend mornings on MSNBC. She is the author of the award-winning Barbershops, Bibles, and BET: Everyday Talk and Black Political Thought and Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America.
Girls for Gender Equity (GGE) is an intergenerational organization committed to the physical, psychological, social, and economic development of girls and women. Through education, organizing and physical fitness, GGE encourages communities to remove barriers and create opportunities for girls and women to live self-determined lives. |
