About

Rebecca Walker is a best-selling writer, producer, and cultural catalyst who has contributed to the global conversation about identity, power, and the evolution of the human family for more than two decades. Her books include Black Cool: One Thousand Streams of Blackness, Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood After a Lifetime of Ambivalence, Ade: A Love Story, and the interactive journal What’s Your Story: A Guide to Everyday Evolution. 

Rebecca speaks widely, and has appeared at over four hundred universities, conferences, literary festivals, and corporate campuses around the world, including Harvard, The Whitney Museum, and Tedx Lund, and served as a consultant for several Fortune 100 companies, including American Express, Microsoft, and JP Morgan Chase. When she was 21, she co-founded the Third Wave Fund, an organization that supports young people working for social justice.

Among other honors, Rebecca was named by Time Magazine as one of the most influential leaders of her generation. Her new book is Women Talk Money: Breaking the Taboo. Her latest film is a bold remake of the iconic book and film, The Color Purple, which she executive produced with Oprah Winfrey, Scott Sanders, and Steven Spielberg.