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Premilla Nadasen is a historian who has written extensively on working-class resistance and women of color. She teaches at Barnard College and is currently president of the National Women's Studies Association. She is author of Household Workers Unite: The Untold Story of African American Women who Built a Movement (2015). She is also a member of the Coordinating Committee of Scholars for Social Justice.
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