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Salamishah Tillet

Creative Writing Professor at Rutgers University-Newark; Co-founder of A Long Walk Home; Feminist Activist & Scholar

Salamishah Tillet

Salamishah Tillet

Creative Writing Professor at Rutgers University-Newark; Co-founder of A Long Walk Home; Feminist Activist & Scholar

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Newark, NJ, USA
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Live Event: $10,000 - $20,000
Virtual Event: $5,000 - $10,000
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Activism, Business, Education, Influential Women, Personal Growth, Self Esteem, TED, Virtual Speakers, Women's Issues
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Salamishah Tillet Biography

A scholar, writer, and activist, Salamishah Tillet is a contributing critic at large for The New York Times where she has been writing since 2015. She writes about popular culture, politics, gender, sexuality, and race, and before The Times, wrote about politics and culture for The Nation and The Root. She is the author of In Search of the Color Purple: The Story of an American Masterpiece (Abrams, 2021), and Sites of Slavery: Citizenship and Racial Democracy in the Post-Civil Rights Imagination (Duke University Press, 2012). She is the co-host and co-producer of “The Because of Anita” podcast with Cindi Leive of The Meteor.

She was awarded the 2020 Whiting Foundation Creative Nonfiction fellowship for her cultural memoir, All The Rage: Mississippi Goddam and The World Nina Simone Made. In May, she was named a 2021 Andrew Carnegie Fellow by the Carnegie Corporation of New York for her next project, In Lieu of the Law: “Me Too’ and The Politics of Justice, a cultural history of the world’s largest social media movement.

Currently, she is the Henry Rutgers Professor of Creative Writing and African American and African Studies and the director of Express Newark, the Center for Socially Engaged Art and Design at Rutgers University - Newark. Upon arriving at Rutgers, she founded New Arts Justice, an initiative for feminist approaches to public art in the City of Newark.

With her sister, Scheherazade Tillet, she founded A Long Walk Home, an arts organization that empowers young people to end violence against girls and women. In 2020, she was a founding member of the Black Girl Freedom Fund, a 10-year-initiative to invest $1Billion dollars in the lives and livelihood of Black girls and young women and their families.

She received her Bachelor of Arts in English and African American Studies and graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania, her Masters of Art in Teaching in English from Brown University, and her Masters of Art in English and American Literature and her Ph.D. in American Studies from Harvard University.

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Salamishah Tillet Videos

  • Rita Dove and Glory Edim with Salamishah Tillet | LIVE from NYPL
    Rita Dove and Glory Edim with Salamishah Tillet | LIVE from NYPL
    The poet laureate and the literary tastemaker share poems and stories new and old.
  • Salamishah Tillet with Marsha Norman
    Salamishah Tillet with Marsha Norman
    Salamishah Tillet, In Search of The Color Purple: The Story of an American Masterpiece, in conversation with Marsha Norman
  • Salamishah Tillet: In Search of the Color Purple
    Salamishah Tillet: In Search of the Color Purple
    It’s hard to overstate the literary and cultural influence of Alice Walker’s Pulitzer-prize winning novel The Color Purple. In the nearly forty...
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Salamishah Tillet Books

  • In Search of The Color Purple: The Story of an American Masterpiece: The Story of Alice Walker’s Masterpiece (Books About Books)
    In Search of The Color Purple: The Story of an American Masterpiece: The Story of Alice Walker’s Masterpiece (Books About Books)
  • Sites of Slavery: Citizenship and Racial Democracy in the Post–Civil Rights Imagination
    Sites of Slavery: Citizenship and Racial Democracy in the Post–Civil Rights Imagination

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Salamishah Tillet is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics . The estimated speaking fee range to book Salamishah Tillet for your event is $10,000 - $20,000. Salamishah Tillet generally travels from Newark, NJ, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Kristie Kennedy, Xernona Clayton, Amelia Rose Earhart, Tiffany Shlain and Sindi Somers. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Salamishah Tillet for an upcoming live or virtual event.

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