Mikki Kendall

Mikki Kendall is a New York Times bestselling writer, speaker, and blogger whose work has appeared in The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Guardian, Time, Salon, Ebony, Essence, and elsewhere. An accomplished public speaker, she has discussed race, feminism, violence in Chicago, tech, pop culture, and social media on Good Morning America , The Daily Show , MSNBC, NPR, Al Jazeera's The Listening Post , BBC's Woman's Hour , and Huff Post Live , as well as at universities across the country....See more

Mikki Kendall is a New York Times bestselling writer, speaker, and blogger whose work has appeared in The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Guardian, Time, Salon, Ebony, Essence, and elsewhere. An accomplished public speaker, she has discussed race, feminism, violence in Chicago, tech, pop culture, and social media on Good Morning America , The Daily Show , MSNBC, NPR, Al Jazeera's The Listening Post , BBC's Woman's Hour , and Huff Post Live , as well as at universities across the country. In 2017, she was awarded Best Food Essay from the Association of Food Journalists for her essay on hot sauce, Jim Crow, and Beyonc�. She is also the author of Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists: A Graphic History of Women's Fight for Their Rights and a co-editor of the Locus-nominated anthology Hidden Youth , as well as a part of the Hugo-nominated team of editors at Fireside Magazine . A veteran, she lives in Chicago with her family. See less