Jessie Daniels

Jessie Daniels,PhD is (she/her) is the author Nice White Ladies (Seal Press, 2021), which looks at the “Karen” phenomenon, and so much more about white women’s role in the current political landscape. The book is a crossover between self-help, memoir and a feminist/critical race theory book. Blending a compelling voice with a powerful argument, it manages to be both edgy and transformative.

Daniels is a Faculty Associate at the Harvard Berkman Klein Center, a Research Associate at the Oxford Internet Institute, and a (Full) Professor of Sociology at Hunter College, and affiliate faculty in Africana Studies, Critical Social Psychology and Sociology at The Graduate Center-CUNY. She is an internationally recognized expert on Internet manifestations of racism, and in that capacity presented her work to the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. She is the author, co-author or co-editor of six books.

She is on Twitter as @JessieNYC.