Kathleen Cleaver, an activist scholar, has taught at Emory University School of Law and Yale University’s African American Studies Department. She quit college in 1966 to join the Civil Rights movement, then served as the Black Panther Party’s Communications Secretary from 1967–1971. Cleaver coedited the essay collection Liberation, Imagination and the Black Panther Party, and is author of the forthcoming Memories of Love and War.