Walda Katz-Fishman is professor of sociology at Howard University, where she has taught since 1970. She is Board Chair and past-Board Treasurer of Project South: Institute for the Elimination of Poverty & Genocide, an Associate Editor of Critical Sociology, and Executive Committee member of the US Chapter of Sociologists without Borders. She has served as Vice-president of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, Chair of the Race and Ethnic Minorities Section and the Marxist Section of the American Sociological Association, Treasurer of the Eastern Sociological Society, President of the Association for Humanist Sociology, Editor of Humanity & Society, and Associate Editor of Social Problems. Walda is a scholar activist who combines her research interests in class, race, and gender inequality and political economy with political activism in struggles to transform society.

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