Evelyn C. White
"When I was like in my teens, what I wanted to be was a prison warden, because that was what my community told me was the best way that I could help black people."Writer, editor, teacher, White has published 3 titles:
Chain Chain Change For Black Women in Abusive Relationships;
The Black Women's Health Book: Speaking for Ourselves; and the first authorized biography of Pulitzer Prize winner Alice Walker:
Alice Walker, a life. Her work appears in many publications including Ms, Smithsonian, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the San Francisco Chronicle, and others.
A frequent leader at writing conferences and a visiting scholar at Mills College in women's studies, she is a graduate of Wellesley, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and Harvard. She did not become a prison warden.
"And so for me to be able to go into a library and see my book The Black Women's Health Book on the book shelf was just a totally wonderful thing....that contrary to what the whole culture says about black women, about how we don't produce anything, we just take, take, take this, take welfare checks, just, you know, make babies, just not produce anything. It spoke to my about how unfair that is. It made me realize the possibilities of life."
