Sheryll Cashin

Sheryll Cashin is an acclaimed author who writes about the U.S. struggle with racism and inequality. Her books have been nominated for the NAACP Image Award for Nonfiction (2015), Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Nonfiction (2005, 2009, and 2018), and an Editors’ Choice in the New York Times Book Review (2004). Cashin is the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Law, Civil Rights and Social Justice at Georgetown University and an active member of the Poverty and Race Research Action Council. A contributing editor for Politico Magazine, she has also written commentaries for the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Salon, The Root, and other media. Follow her on Twitter (@sheryllcashin).

She currently resides in Washington, D.C. with her husband and two sons.

Photo credit Robyn M. Bishop.