Debra Minkoff

Debra Minkoff (moderator) joined the faculty of Barnard College in 2005, where she has served as chair of the Barnard sociology department for more than a decade, as well as Dean for Faculty Diversity and Development. Minkoff started her career teaching at Yale University and the University of Washington, Seattle and has held visiting positions at the University of Munich and the Humboldt University of Berlin while on a Fulbright Fellowship. Her work focuses on the organizational dimensions of social movements and political activism in the U.S.