Jamia Wilson
Author · 8 books
Jamia is a feminist activist, writer, and speaker. She joined Random House as vice president and executive editor in 2021. As the former director of the Feminist Press at the City University of New York and the former VP of programs at the Women’s Media Center, Jamia has been a leading voice on women’s rights issues for over a decade. Her work has appeared in numerous outlets, including the New York Times, the Today Show, CNN, Elle, BBC, Rookie, Refinery 29, Glamour, Teen Vogue, and The Washington Post. She is the author of Young, Gifted, and Black, the introduction and oral history in Together We Rise: Behind the Scenes at the Protest Heard Around the World, Step Into Your Power: 23 Lessons on How to Live Your Best Life, Big Ideas for Young Thinkers, ABC's of AOC, and the co-author of Roadmap for Revolutionaries: Resistance, Advocacy, and Activism for All.
Books
Young, Gifted and Black
Meet 52 Black Heroes from Past and Present
2018
The V-Word
True Stories about First-Time Sex
2016
Well-Read Black Girl
Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves
2018
The ABCs of AOC
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez from A to Z
2019
Big Ideas For Young Thinkers
20 questions about life and the universe
1981
This Book Is Feminist
An Intersectional Primer for Next-Gen Changemakers
2021
Baby Young, Gifted, and Black
With a Mirror!
2021
Step Into Your Power
23 lessons on how to live your best life
2019
