Sonya Y. Ramsey

Sonya Ramsey grew up in Nashville, Tennessee, and attended Howard University, where she received a B.A. in Journalism and received her Master’s and Ph.D. in United States History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A Professor of History and Women’s and Gender Studies, Dr. Ramsey is the Director of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Dr. Ramsey is the author of Bertha Maxwell-Roddey, a Modern-Day Race Woman and the Power of Black Leadership, (University Press of Florida, 2022) and several historical works, including R* eading, Writing, and Segregation: a Century of Black Women Teachers in Nashville*, published by the University of Illinois Press (2008).