Brittney Cooper is an Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Africana Studies at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. She is a tenured professor, author, activist, and cultural critic who specializes in the study of Black women’s intellectual history, Hip Hop generation feminism, and race and gender representation in popular culture. She is the author of three books: "Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women," "The Crunk Feminist Collection," and "Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower." In particular, this work interrogates the manner in which public Black women have theorized racial identity and gender politics, and the methods they used to operationalize those theories for the uplift of Black communities.

Dr. Cooper is also a co-founder of the Crunk Feminist Collective, a popular feminist blog, and co-editor of a collection of essays titled "The Crunk Feminist Collection." She is a sought-after public speaker and commentator. In addition to a weekly column on race and gender politics at Salon.com, her work and words have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Cosmo.com, TV Guide, the Los Angeles Times, Ebony.com, The Root.com, MSNBC’s "Melissa Harris-Perry Show," "All In With Chris Hayes," "Disrupt with Karen Finney," and "Third Rail on Al-Jazeera America," among many others. In 2013 and 2014, Cooper was named Root.com's Root 100, an annual list of top Black influencers.

Dr. Cooper is a proud alumna of Howard University and a proud native of North Louisiana.

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