About

Rebecca Walker has catalyzed the global conversation about identity, power, and the evolution of the human family for three decades. She is the author of a dozen books including Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood After a Lifetime of Ambivalence, Ade: A Love Story, Black Cool: One Thousand Streams of Blackness, the interactive journal What’s Your Story: A Guide to Everyday Evolution, and her many essays have appeared in publications ranging from the New York Times and Book Forum to Corriere de la Serra and Cosmopolitan.

Rebecca has written, developed, and produced film and television projects at Warner Brothers, NBC, Amazon, HBO, and Paramount, and spoken at over four hundred universities and corporate campuses internationally including Harvard, MIT, Brown, Morehouse, NYU, LACMA, The Whitney Museum, the Museum of the African Diaspora, and TEDxLund. She has 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 gives project-sustaining grants to women and 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, and awarded the Women Who Could Be President Award from the League of Women Voters. Her latest collection is Women Talk Money: Breaking the Taboo, published by Simon and Schuster, and her most recent film production is a bold remake of the iconic book and musical, The Color Purple, which she executive produced with Oprah Winfrey, Scott Sanders, and Steven Spielberg.

Find her new book for children, Time For Us, everywhere you buy books.