Dr. Linda Martín Alcoff is a professor of philosophy at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. In the past she served as President of the American Philosophical Association, Executive Co-Director of SPEP, and Co-Editor of Hypatia, and today is Co-Director of the Public Humanities and Social Justice Program at Hunter College. Her areas of work include epistemology, Latin American philosophy, feminism, critical race theory and continental philosophy. Her recent books include Rape and Resistance; (Polity 2018); The Future of Whiteness (Polity 2015); Visible Identities: Race, Gender and the Self (Oxford 2006), which won the Frantz Fanon Award. She has also edited or co-edited 11 books and written over 100 journal articles and book chapters, and has contributed to The New York Times, Aeon, the NY Indypendent, and other publications. Currently she is finishing two books: one on a decolonial approach to race and racism, and a second on extractivist epistemologies. She is originally from Panama.