Isabel Wilkerson

Isabel Wilkerson is an American journalist and author born in 1961. She is known for her books 'The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration' (2010) and 'Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents' (2020). Wilkerson made history as the first woman of African-American heritage to win the Pulitzer Prize in journalism. She began her career as the editor-in-chief of the Howard University college newspaper and went on to intern at the Los Angeles Times and Washington Post. Later, she became the Chicago Bureau Chief of The New York Times. Wilkerson has also taught at prestigious institutions such as Emory, Princeton, Northwestern, and Boston University.More