Tamara Winfrey Harris

Tamara Winfrey-Harris is an American author, columnist and speaker. Her writing topics include politics, pop culture, race, and gender.

Early life and education Winfrey-Harris is from Gary, Indiana. She received a BA from the Greenlee School of Journalism at Iowa State University.

Career Winfrey-Harris' first book, The Sisters Are Alright: Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women in America was published in May 2015. The book won the Phyllis Wheatley Award, the IndieFab Award, and Independent Publishers' Living Now Award and IPPY Award.

Winfrey-Harris has spoken on NPR's Weekend Edition and Janet Mock's So Popular on MSNBC. In 2018, she delivered the keynote address at the Arts Council of Indianapolis' Let's Eat Conference about the business of art.

She is the Vice President of Community Leadership & Effective Philanthropy at the Central Indiana Community Foundation (CICF).

In 2021, Winfrey-Harris appeared on Storybound (podcast), accompanied by an original Storybound remix with Au Revoir Simone.

Works

Books

The Sisters Are Alright: Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women in America. Berrett-Koehler Publishers. . May 22, 2015. Dear Black Girl: Letters From Your Sisters on Stepping Into Your Power. Berrett-Koehler Publishers. To be published in March 2021.

Other publications

"Singled Out". Ms. April 18, 2012. "A Twerk Too Far". The American Prospect. September 5, 2013. "Black Like Who? Rachel Dolezal's Harmful Masquerade". The New York Times. June 16, 2015. "A Woman's Worth: Bill Cosby and Beyond". Ebony. October 20, 2015. "What We Get Wrong About Black Women's Sexuality". Cosmopolitan. February 20, 2016. "The Ugliness of This Campaign Won't Go Away, No Matter What Happens Tomorrow". The Cut. November 7, 2016. "The Real Work of Being an Ally". The Cut. January 17, 2017. "Stop Pretending Black Midwesterners Don't Exist". The New York Times. June 16, 2018. "The Reckoning Will Be Incomplete Without Black Women and Girls". The Atlantic. June 14, 2020.