Melissa Harris-Perry
 
Dorian Warren and Melissa Harris-Perry. 2017. PHOTO CREDIT: Paras Griffin for Getty Images

Dorian Warren and Melissa Harris-Perry. 2017. PHOTO CREDIT: Paras Griffin for Getty Images

Melissa Harris-Perry is the Maya Angelou Presidential Chair at Wake Forest University. Melissa is founder and president of the Anna Julia Cooper Center, an independent organization advancing justice through intersectional scholarship and action. Along Dorian Warren, Melissa co-created and co-hosts System Check. She and her husband, James Perry, are principals of Perry Partnership, offering private and political consulting. Melissa is an award-winning author, sought after public speaker, and accomplished media professional.

Well-behaved women rarely make history

Melissa Harris-Perry. Winston-Salem, N.C 2016. Photo Credit Andar Sawyers for The New York Times.

Melissa Harris-Perry. Winston-Salem, N.C 2016. Photo Credit Andar Sawyers for The New York Times.

 

Professor

Teaching. Innovating. Learning.

A professor for more than 20 years, Harris-Perry has served on the faculties of the University of Chicago, Princeton University, and Tulane University. In 2014, she returned to her undergraduate alma mater, Wake Forest University where she continues her work as a scholar, teacher, and campus innovator.

 

Advocate

Voice. ACTION. SUSTAINABILITY.

Melissa Harris-Perry contributes her voice, resources, and work to build and sustain equitable communities governed by democratic practices. This includes her work as a trustee of The Century Foundation and a board member for The Markup. She in an advisor to the Next 100, The Vera Institute the Shea Moisture Social Justice Advisory Council, and the Ruth Simmons Center at Prairie View A&M. Fresh eggs and sustainable practices govern daily family life on Anna’s Park Homestead.

Consultant

BuILD. Train. Run.

In 2018, James Perry and Melissa Harris-Perry founded Perry Partnership to identify new talent, develop civic capacity, train political candidates, deepen democratic engagement, expand opportunities for real people to make a real difference in their communities and our country.

 

Speaker

lectures. dialouges. workshops.

Melissa Harris-Perry is a sought after public speaker, lecturing domestically, digitally, and abroad. She is creative, dynamic, practical, and engaging. MHP has taught students from grade school to graduate school and trained professionals in corporations, non-profits, and political organizations. Melissa Harris-Perry has been widely recognized and hailed for her commitment to democratic deliberation.

Writer

Books. Print. Digital.

Melissa Harris-Perry is the an award winning author of two books. Her latest, Sister Citizen, Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America has inspired many within and beyond the Academe. She’s served as editor-at-large for Elle.com and ZORA and is a contributing editor for The Nation.

 

Host

PODCAST. TELEVISION. DIGITAL.

Along with Dorian Warren, Melissa Harris-Perry is co-creator and co-host of System Check, a podcast, video, and live event program. She hosted the award winning television show “Melissa Harris-Perry” from 2012-2016 on weekend mornings on MSNBC and in 2016, she won the Hillman Prize for broadcast journalism.

Harris-Perry facilitated discussions on everything from the long and complicated history of mass incarceration to the gendered and racialized politics of climate change, toys or even sneakers, throwing together community members with leading academics, organizers, bloggers and journalists. All rubbed shoulders on an equal footing, and at the center of these debates stood one group that is arguably one of the most marginalized and ignored in American society: black women
— The Guardian March 2016
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