Tanisha Ford
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Tanisha Ford

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Tanisha C. Ford is a cultural critic and award-winning writer. A professor of history at The Graduate Center, CUNY, she has written for the New York Times, the Atlantic, Time, the Root, Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, and featured on NPR, among other places. In 2019, she was named to the Root’s list of the 100 Most influential African Americans. Ford is the author of Dressed in Dreams, Kwame Brathwaite: Black is Beautiful, and Liberated Threads, which won the 2016 Organization of American Historians’ Liberty Legacy Foundation Award for best book on civil rights history. Her research has been supported by New America/Emerson Collective, Harvard Radcliffe Institute, Schomburg Center, and Ford Foundation, among others. She lives in Harlem. For more information visit: www.tanishacford.com. Follow her on social media: @SoulistaPhD

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