Mab Segrest is professor emeritus of Gender and Women's Studies at Connecticut College and the author of Memoir of a Race Traitor: Fighting Racism in the American South, an Outstanding Book on Human Rights in North America and Editor's Choice for the Lambda Literary Awards, as well as Administrations of Lunacy: Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry (both published by The New Press). A past fellow at the National Humanities Center, she lives in Durham, NC.