Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Kitchen Table Press - "SInce 1980, activist, feminist, writer, and scholar Barbara Smith started a press "to make visual the writing, culture, and history of women of color." At the urging of poet Audre Lorde and a collective of other poets, writers, and essayists, Smith set out on the inspired and passionate tasks of building the mission, goals, and reach of the Kitchen Table Press. She chose the name, "Kitchen Table," because that sturdy, purposeful gathering place is "the center of the home, the place where women in particular work and communicate with each other" (Smith, 1989).
Smith co-founded the Combahee River Collective in Boston, Massachusetts in 1974. The organization was best known for its Combahee River Collective Statement (1977), which she co-authored with her twin, Beverly, and with Demita Frazier."

"A nationally recognized expert in forensic social work and domestic violence, Cecilia (Cessie) Alfonso is the founder and president of Alfonso Consultants, which provides psychosocial assessments to clients of civil and criminal attorneys throughout the United States and abroad. Since 1986 she has consulted on over 700 capital cases, often testifying as an expert in the penalty phase of those cases."