Isabel Wilkerson

Isabel Wilkerson is an American journalist and author born in 1961 in Washington, D.C., known for her acclaimed nonfiction works The Warmth of Other Suns (2010) and Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (2020). She was the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for journalism in 1994 and has received the National Humanities Medal for championing unsung histories.