Premilla Nadasen is the Ann Whitney Olin Professor of History at Barnard College and past president of the National Women’s Studies Association. She has published extensively on the multiple meanings of feminism, alternative labor movements, and grass-roots community organizing and is most interested in visions of social change, and the ways in which poor and working-class women of color fought for economic justice. Her most recent book, Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism (2023), examines profit extraction from the care economy as well as models of grassroots radical care that sit outside capitalism. She is also the author of two award-winning books, Household Workers Unite: The Untold Story of African American Women Who Built a Movement and Welfare Warriors: The Welfare Rights Movement in the United States. She is currently writing a biography of South African singer and anti-apartheid activist Miriam Makeba. Nadasen has a long history of community engagement, including collaborations with the National Domestic Workers Alliance, Damayan Migrant Workers Association, and the Mississippi Low-Income Child Care Initiative. In 2023 she was named a Marguerite Casey Foundation Freedom Scholar for her activism and scholarly contributions to social justice work.