Salamishah Tillet is feminist activist, scholar, and writer. She is the co-founder of A Long Walk Home, a Chicago-based national organization that uses art to empower young people to end violence against girls and women. She blogs for The Nation, has appeared on Al-Jazeera America, BBC, CNN, MSNBC, and NPR, has written for The Chicago Tribune, The Guardian, and The Root. She is an associate professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, author of "Sites of Slavery: Citizenship and Racial Democracy in the Post-Civil Rights Imagination" (Duke University Press, 2012) and “Gloria Steinem: The Kindle Singles Interview” (Amazon, 2013), and is currently working on a book on Nina Simone.