Our Foreword

DR. TRESSIE MCMILLIAN COTTOM

Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom is a research professor at UNC-Chapel Hill’s iSchool, a MacArthur Fellow, and New York Times contributing opinion writer. She is the author of several books, including the National Book Award finalist “Thick: And Other Essays.”

Audiences and institutions have lauded her incisive analysis and impact. Her current research examines racial capitalism in platform economies and what she calls “hustleprenuership.” In her writing, research, and public scholarship, she illuminates the empirics of our everyday lives through beautiful storytelling in the Black oral tradition.

She is the foreword writer for The Black Agenda: Bold Solutions for a Broken System. Learn more about her here.

Back to Experts

 This book is the first step towards defining Black expertise, assigning value to the work that we do, and taking up space in the public on our own terms.  I’m looking forward to the spaces in need of critical self-reflection that make this book a normal part of routine business and the discourse.
    