tford23@nul.org
Speaker Bio
Tanisha C. Ford is a foremost voice on the intersection of politics, economics, and culture. She makes connections between the past and the present in ways that shed new light on today's most pressing social issues. She is a professor of history and biography and memoir at The Graduate Center, CUNY, and is the author of “Our Secret Society: Mollie Moon and the Glamour, Money, and Power Behind the Civil Rights Movement,” which will be published by Amistad/HarperCollins in Fall 2023; “Dressed in Dreams: A Black Girl’s Love Letter to the Power of Fashion” (St. Martins, June 2019), and the award-winning “Liberated Threads: Black Women, Style, and the Global Politics of Soul” (UNC Press, 2015). Tanisha has received several major awards and honors. She was named one of The Root's 100 Most Influential African Americans.