Isabel Wilkerson

Isabel Wilkerson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Humanities Medal, is the author the critically acclaimed New York Times bestsellers The Warmth of Other Suns and Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents.

Wilkerson won the Pulitzer Prize for her work as Chicago Bureau Chief of The New York Times in 1994, making her the first black woman in the history of American journalism to win a Pulitzer and the first African-American to win for individual reporting. In 2016, President Barack Obama awarded her the National Humanities Medal for “championing the stories of an unsung history.”

She has appeared on national programs such as “Fresh Air with Terry Gross,” CBS’s “60 Minutes,” NBC’s “Nightly News,” “The PBS News Hour,” MSNBC’s “The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell,” “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah,” NPR’s “On Being with Krista Tippett,” the BBC and others. She has taught at Princeton, Emory, and Boston universities and has lectured at more than 200 other colleges and universities across the U.S. and in Europe and Asia.