REBECCA WALKER

Rebecca Walker is a best-selling author, an acclaimed speaker and teacher, and an award-winning visionary and activist in the fields of intergenerational feminism, multi-cultural identity, enlightened masculinity, and transformational human awareness. When she was just twenty-five, Time Magazine named her one of the fifty most influential American leaders under forty-an award which has been followed by many others, including the Women Who Could Be President Award from the League of Women Voters, the Women of Distinction Award from the American Association of University Women, and an Honorary Doctorate from the North Carolina School of the Arts.

Rebecca's books include To Be Real: Telling the Truth and Changing the Face of Feminism, still in print after more than ten years and taught in Gender Studies programs around the world; the memoir Black, White, and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self, an international bestseller that won the Alex Award from the American Library Association; and What Makes a Man: 22 Writers Imagine The Future, about which Booklist wrote: "Walker has done society at large a great service by bringing forth these voices, these views." Rebecca's new memoir, Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood After a Lifetime of Ambivalence was published in March 2007 to similar acclaim.

As a speaker and lecturer, Rebecca has presented at hundreds of high schools and universities including Exeter, Head Royce, Harvard, Oberlin, Smith, MIT, and Stanford, and addressed dozens of organizations including the National Council of Teachers of English, RuterDam in Stockholm, Out and Equal, Hewitt Associates, and the Ministries of Culture and Gender of Estonia, at the first-ever Conference on Masculinity in the Baltics. She has been a consultant for Sony Music, Microsoft and JP Morgan Chase, and has been featured on Charlie Rose, Good Morning America, and Oprah.

Rebecca's essays, articles, and reviews have appeared in The Washington Post, The Huffington Post, Babble, Salon, Marie Claire, Glamour, Child, Plum, Essence, and Buddhadharma, and in many anthologies. She teaches the art of memoir at workshops, MFA programs, and writing conferences around the world, and offers private consultation to writers of both fiction and non-fiction.

After graduating from Yale in 1992, Rebecca co-founded the Third Wave Foundation, a non-profit that works through grantmaking, leadership development, and philanthropic advocacy to support young women ages 15 to 30 working towards gender, racial, economic, and social justice. She currently sits on the boards of Children As They Are, and the environmental organization Save The Bay.