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TANANARIVE DUE
Lecturer, Dept. of African American Studies
Tananarive Due (tah-nah-nah-REEVE doo) is an award-winning author who teaches Black Horror and Afrofuturism at UCLA. Due has won an American Book Award.
Her books include Ghost Summer: Stories, My Soul to Keep, and The Good House. She and her late mother, civil rights activist Patricia Stephens Due, co-authored Freedom in the Family: a Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights.
Amy Finley
B.A. in Political Science
Amy Finley, a chef, writer and traveler, won the third season of The Next Food Network Star, making her the first female contestant to win this show. In 2011, she authored the memoir, How to Eat a Small Country, about her life after her departure from television.
Dr. Marcus Anthony Hunter
Professor, Dept, of Sociology
Chair, Dept. of African American studies
Professor Hunter is the Scott Waugh Endowed Chair in the Division of the Social Sciences, Associate professor in sociology, and Chair of the department of African American Studies at UCLA.
He is author of Black Citymakers: How The Philadelphia Negro Changed Urban America (2013) and coauthor with Zandria F. Robinson of Chocolate Cities: The Black Map of American Life (2018, University of California Press).
Carissa Phelps
M.B.A. (’07), J.D. (’07)
Forced into a life of sex and drug use as a teenager, Carissa Phelps now creates job opportunities for survivors of human trafficking.
She’s also written a memoir, “Runaway Girl: Escaping Life on the Streets, One Helping Hand at a Time.”
Chon Noriega, Ph.d.
Professor, Dept. of Film, Television and Digital Media
Director, UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center
Dr. Judy Willis
M.D. (UCLA), M.Ed. (UCSB)
Dr. Willis was awarded her medical degree from the UCLA School of Medicine, and went on to practice neurology. After some time, she earned her M.Ed. from UCSB, and began teaching elementary and middle school.
With her unique background in both neuroscience and education, she has authored seven books about applying neuroscience research to classroom teaching strategies.
Safiya Umoja Noble, PH.D.
Associate Professor, Dept. of Information Studies
Co-director, UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry
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Kyeyoung Park 박계영
Professor, Anthropology and Asian American Studies
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Dawn Wynne
B.A. in Theater
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