By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 9 years ago

Quick Hit: The Root 100

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Lots of familiar faces in this year’s Root 100 list, which features “African Americans 45 years old and younger who are responsible for the year’s most significant moments and themes.” Check out our own executive director Lori Adelman, as well as contributors Mychal, Wagatwe, and Zerlina, along side friends of the blog like Janet Mock and Melissa Harris-Perry, and future friends like Beyoncé and Shonda Rhimes. Congrats to all!

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Maya Dusenbery is executive director in charge of editorial at Feministing. She is the author of the forthcoming book Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick (HarperOne, March 2018). She has been a fellow at Mother Jones magazine and a columnist at Pacific Standard magazine. Her work has appeared in publications like Cosmopolitan.com, TheAtlantic.com, Bitch Magazine, as well as the anthology The Feminist Utopia Project. Before become a full-time journalist, she worked at the National Institute for Reproductive Health. A Minnesota native, she received her B.A. from Carleton College in 2008. After living in Brooklyn, Oakland, and Atlanta, she is currently based in the Twin Cities.

Maya Dusenbery is an executive director of Feministing and author of the forthcoming book Doing Harm on sexism in medicine.

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