Barbara Ransby

Barbara Ransby is a historian, author and longtime activist. She is the John D. MacArthur University Professor with appointments in the Departments of Black Studies, Gender and Women’s Studies and History at University of Illinois at Chicago, where she directs the Social Justice Initiative and The Portal Project. She is also the author of the award-winning biography, Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement, two other books and many articles. Follow her on Twitter: @BarbaraRansby