Lynn Weber is a Professor of Psychology and Women's and Gender Studies at the University of South Carolina. For more than thirty years, she has led in developing the field of intersectionality – examining the nexus between race, class, gender, sexuality, and other dimensions of inequality. In addition to her work on the Mississippi Gulf Coast and in conjunction with a national research network on persons displaced by Hurricane Katrina, she and Lori Peek edited Displaced: Life in the Katrina Diaspora (2012).