Biography: Dr. Rose M. Brewer is an activist scholar and The Morse Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor and past chairperson of the Department of African American & African Studies, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. She also holds affiliated appointments in American Studies, Gender Women and Sexuality Studies, and Sociology.  Brewer publishes extensively on  political economy, racial justice movements, race, class, gender and social change. Brewer has held the Sociologist for Women in Society Feminist Lectureship in Social Change, a Wiepking Distinguished Visiting Professorship at Miami University of Ohio,  a visiting Scholar in the Social Justice Initiative, University of Illinois-Chicago as well as a visiting scholar at the Havens Wright Center for Social Justice, University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is a University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts Dean’s Medalist, a member of the Academy of Distinguished Teachers, a winner of the American Sociological Association’s Distinguished Teaching award, and a Josie Johnson Social Justice Award recipient. She was the 2024-2025 President of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Her political commitment remains the struggle for transformational social change, peace and justice in the U.S. and globally.