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Author Bio

Dr. Stacey Chimimba Ault (she, her, dr) is a Professor Emerita from Sacramento State University who now leans into community pedagogy and scholarship. She currently leads the Race and Gender Equity (RAGE) Project, a youth-centered organization which harnesses the power of individual and collective transformation through healing, education, advocacy and research. Dr. Ault also created Restful LeadershipTM, a trauma informed, human centered approach to being well at work that lives in the intersection of liberatory leadership and literal rest.. She received her doctorate in International and Multicultural Education, with an emphasis in Human Rights Education from the University of San Francisco, and her BA in Psychology, and MSW from Sacramento State. Her scholarship focuses on Critical Post Traumatic Growth and Participatory Action Research, specifically centering Black women and youth. These days, Dr. Ault is particularly interested in uplifting narratives of joy, rest and liberation.

Susan Roberta Katz is Professor Emerita of International & Multicultural Education at the University of San Francisco, where she taught for 27 years and co-founded the graduate program in Human Rights Education in 2008. Until 2025, she was the book reviews co-editor of the International Journal of Human Rights Education and remains on the editorial board. A former San Francisco public middle school teacher, she received her Ph.D. in Education in Language & Literacy at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Education. Since 2010, she has participated in collaborative research and educational projects with Indigenous communities in both Ecuador and Colombia. Her co-edited book, Bringing Human Rights Education to U.S. Classrooms: Exemplary Models from Elementary Grades through University, was published by Palgrave McMillan in Spring 2015.

Abstract

As human rights educators from different generations and racial identities, we wanted to read and review Black Panther Woman about Ericka Huggins for different but equally powerful personal reasons. For Stacey, her best friend, Dr. Linda Garrett, was a Black Panther scholar, making her, as a Black  woman, interested in learning more about Ericka as a mother, comrade, and activist. For Susan, Ericka’s case in the 1970s profoundly impacted her political consciousness as a White college student and motivated her commitment to social justice activism. For all readers of the International Journal of Human Rights Education, we strongly recommend this book as a source of inspirational lessons for you and your students in movement-building, sustained commitment, and living life with the greatest sense of purpose.

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