Robin R. Means Coleman is vice president and associate provost for diversity and inclusion, chief diversity officer, and Ida B. Wells and Ferdinand Barnett Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Northwestern University. Her books include African Americans and the Black Situation Comedy: Situating Racial Humor, and the edited collection Say It Loud! African Americans, Media and Identity, along with the coedited volume Fight the Power! The Spike Lee Reader and the coauthored Intercultural Communication for Everyday Life. Her documentary Horror Noire won the 2020 Rondo Hatton Award for Best Documentary and the 2019 FearNyc Trailblazer Award.
