Grace Lee Boggs

Grace Lee Boggs is an activist, writer and speaker whose more than 60 years of political involvement encompass the major U.S. social movements of this century: labor, civil rights, Black Power, Asian American, women's and environmental justice. She co-founded Detroit Summer in 1992, a multicultural, intergenerational youth program to rebuild, redefine and respirit Detroit from the ground up. Currently, she works with the Detroit City of Hope campaign and the Beloved Communities Initiative and writes for the weekly Michigan Citizen. Her autobiography, Living for Change, published by the University of Minnesota Press in March l998, is widely used in university classes in Asian-American studies, on Detroit and on social movements.