Premilla Nadasen is Professor of History at Barnard College, Columbia University, Director of Barnard Center for Research on Women, past president of the National Women’s Studies Association, and Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecturer. Her research focus is social policy, labor history, and the activism and visions of liberation of poor and working-class women of color. Her books include Welfare Warriors: The Welfare Rights Movement in the United States (2005) and Household Workers Unite: The Untold Story of African American Women Who Built a Movement (2015). Her forthcoming book, Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism (2023), chronicles the rise of the care economy and uplifts examples of radical care practice. Her current work is a biography of South African singer and anti-apartheid activist Miriam Makeba, tentatively titled, “Mama Africa: Miriam Makeba, the Anti- Apartheid Movement, and Transnational Black Solidarity.”