Dr. Amaka Okechukwu is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Africana Studies at Johns Hopkins University. She is an interdisciplinary scholar engaged in research on social movements, race, Black communities, urban politics, and digital humanities. She is the author of the awards-winning To Fulfill These Rights: Political Struggle Over Affirmative Action and Open Admissions (Columbia University Press, 2019) and various articles. She has worked in public history and community engagement roles, as well as in social movement organizations. Her current book project concerns grassroots organizing and Black social life in Brooklyn during the 1970s and 1980s.