Kenrya Rankin
Kenrya Rankin is an award-winning author, journalist and editorial consultant whose insight has been tapped by leading outlets, including The New York Times, The Huffington Post and ThinkProgress. She is currently the deputy editor at Colorlines. As a journalist and editor, her work has appeared in dozens of national publications—including Reader’s Digest, Ebony, Glamour and Fast Company—and it has been translated into 21 languages. She writes about everything from literature to technology, but her heart lies with racial justice, identity and parenting. She is also the founder and editorial director of parenting site BlackAndGreenMama.com and is a practicing doula at Mama's Intuition Doula + Lactation Services. She previously served as editorial associate at Reader's Digest, lifestyle editor at Latina, D.C. editor for Uptown Magazine and contributing editor at ShopSmart. She has published four books, including Bet on Black: African-American Women Celebrate Fatherhood in the Age of Barack Obama and the How We Fight White Supremacy: A Field Guide to Black Resistance (Nation Books).
Kenrya earned her undergraduate degree in journalism from Howard University, and her master’s degree in publishing from New York University. She is a proud native of Cleveland, Ohio, and currently lives in the Washington, DC area with her brilliant daughter.
