Susan Glisson

For three decades Susan has helped heal the wounds of racial injustice, including the first state “Mississippi Burning” conviction and the removal of Mississippi’s racist state flag. She has published articles in the Du Bois Review and Race and Justice, co-authored First Freedoms and edited Civil Rights in the Human Tradition. She holds four degrees including an American Studies doctorate from William and Mary. In 2013, Time Magazine called her a “hero of the new South in civil rights” for pioneering a model of truth-telling and reconciliation. At Mesa Refuge, she will be working on We Are All Mississippians: Healing the History of Whiteness, a white southerner’s coming of age and argument for empathy and healing as a remedy to white supremacy.