Annelise Orleck is a professor at Dartmouth College where she focuses on history, American radicalism, race studies and women's, gender, and sexuality studies. She is the author of several books, including: Rethinking American Women's Activism; Storming Caesars Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty; and Common Sense and a Little Fire: Women and Working Class Politics in the U.S. She lives in Thetford Center, Vermont.