Creator Bio
Rebecca Walker
b. 1969
Rebecca Walker was born in Jackson, Mississippi, and grew up in New York and San Francisco. A contributing editor to Ms. Magazine and the cofounder of Third Wave Foundation, Walker is a journalist and memoir writer who has explored her interracial background. She was named one of the fifty most influential American leaders under age forty by Time.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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Black White and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self
In twelfth grade I am at the height of my power as a young woman. I am experienced. I am loved. I am excelling in my classes. I am president of my school and lead all school meetings in the gym every…