NWA Community Advisory Board

Dr. Florence Bonner is the Chair of the Anthropology and Sociology department at Howard University and founder of the African-American Women's Institute at Howard University.

Antonia Castaneda is a Chicana Feminist historian. She is a professor in the History department at St. Mary's University, San Antonio, Texas, and is the author of numerous articles on gender and colonialism.

Shamita Das Dasgupta is one of the founders of Manavi, the pioneering organization for battered South Asian women based in New Jersey. She is the editor of an anthology on South Asian women forthcoming from Rutgers University Press. She is an assistant professor of Psychology at Rutgers University.

Angela Y. Davis is a noted activist and scholar. She has fought for over a quarter of a century against economic and racial injustice. She is the author of If They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance; Women, Race and Class; Blues Legacies and Black Feminism; and Women, Culture and Politics. Currently, she is a professor at The History of Consciousness Program at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Elaine Kim is chair of the Ethnic Studies program and professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She co-edited Dangerous Women: Gender and Korean Nationalism (Routledge, 1997), Making More Waves: New Writing by Asian American Women (Beacon, 1997), and East to America: Korean American Life Stories (The New Press, 1996).

Carla Trujillo received her Ph.D. in educational psychology from the University of Wisconsin. She is editor of Living Chicana Theory and of Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mother Warned Us About. The anthology is in its third printing and won the LAMDA Book award for best Lesbian anthology and the Out/Write Vanguard Award for Best Pioneering Contribution to the Field of Gay/Lesbian Literature in 1991. She works as an administrator in diversity education and advocacy and as a lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley.

Amita Preisser is a consultant, trainer and lecturer on domestic violence. She sits on the boards of Asian Women's Self-Help Association (ASHA), a non-profit organization which addresses the concerns and issues of Asian women, The International Campaign for Tibet, D.C. Coalition Against Domestic Violence and is a member of the D.C. Superior Court Domestic Violence Coordinating Council.

Sonia Sanchez is a noted social activist, teacher and writer. She has received many awards and much reconigition for her poetry and writing. She is currently a professor in the Women Studies department at Temple University.

Beverly Guy-Sheftall is the Anna Julia Cooper professor of English and Women's Studies at Spelman College. She is the founding director of the Women's Research and Resource Center at Spelman College. She is also one of the founding co-editors of Sage: A Scholarly Journal on Black Women. She is editor of Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought.