Andrea Hunter

Scholar, teacher, mentor, writer—and colored girl.

I have sought to reveal everyday people living ordinary lives who do so with agency, with dignity, with great verve, and with the full range of harmony and chaos a human being can extract from life; my aim is to uncover the human experience as well as to impact publics.

I am a graduate of Spelman College and Cornell University, and a professor at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro.

I am the essayist and producer of this podcast, A Colored Girl Speaks: Meditations on Race and Other Magical Things. A turn from my academic scholarship, but then again not.

I have a son who is no longer a boy and I have been married longer than I imagined possible when I sat with legs swinging from the family’s ziziphus tree.

I have written of the lives I wanted to but have yet to capture all that was witnessed, and felt, in the black enclave of my youth.

I am my mother’s daughter, and all who came before.

In all that have done, I hope I have honored them—because they made me.