Tressie McMillan Cottom is a writer, researcher, and sociologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. As a public scholar and essayist, McMillan Cottom explores matters related to Black America, culture, politics, and economics for "The New York Times" and is the author of the books "Thick: And Other Essays" and "Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy." She is also the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation "Genius" award. In this episode of "The Civil Discourse," McMillan Cottom joins Host Paula Marantz Cohen to address her challenges as a Black woman intellectual, how institutions of higher education are pivoting DEI initiatives, and how race and ethnicity present complex differences.

Recorded January 26, 2023 through virtual conferencing (Philadelphia, PA, USA). This episode is a production of Marketing & Media, Pennoni Honors College, Drexel University.

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