Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom

Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom is a professor at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, NY Times columnist, and 2020 MacArthur Fellow. Recent accolades include being named the 2023 winner of the Joseph B. and Toby Gittler Prize by Brandeis University for her “critical perspective and analysis to some of the greatest social challenges we face today.”

McMillan Cottom’s most recent book, THICK: AND OTHER ESSAYS (The New Press 2019), won the Brooklyn Public Library’s 2019 Literary Prize and was shortlisted for the National Book Award in nonfiction.