Cathy Cohen

Cathy Cohen is an activist, political scientist, professor, and feminist who examines the participation of Black people in politics through the lens of intersectionality. She is the David and Mary Winton Green Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. Cohen is the author of two books, The Boundaries of Blackness: AIDS and the Breakdown of Black Politics (University of Chicago Press, 1999) and Democracy Remixed: Black Youth and the Future of American Politics (Oxford University Press, 2010). In addition, she also created and oversees two major research and public-facing projects: the GenForward Survey and the Black Youth Project.