Shirley Chisholm

Dr. Zinga A. Fraser is an author, lecturer, historical consultant and philanthropist. She is the Director of the Shirley Chisholm Project on Brooklyn Women’s Activism. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor in the Africana Studies Department and Women’s and Gender Studies program at Brooklyn College. Dr. Fraser is a foremost expert on Shirley Chisholm and Black Congressional Women and Black feminist politics and culture. Most recently she served as the historical consultant on the Netflix feature “Shirley,” written and Directed by John Ridley and starred and produced by Regina King. Her book, Shirley Chisholm: In her Own Words a Collection of Speeches and Writings explores Chisholm’s intellectual legacy is available for Pre- order and will be released October the 8th under the University of California Press. She is the co- curator Shirley Chisholm at 100: Changing the Face of Democracy which is the first major museum exhibition on the life and legacy of Shirley Chisholm at the Museum of the City of New York that opened in June 2024. Dr. Fraser has published several works and is currently completing her book manuscript titled, Sister Insider/ Sister Outsider: Shirley Chisholm and Barbara Jordan, Black Women’s Politics in the Post- Civil Rights Era. She has appeared on local, national and international news outlets such as: The New York Times, Washington Post, Time Magazine, AP Press, Essence Magazine, History Channel, Elle Magazine docuseries, Buzzfeed News, C-SPAN, The History Channel, BBC- Africa, NY1 and WNBC-TV, WABC- TV, WCBS-TV, USA Today, National Public Radio and a host of more. She is a well sought after speaker at colleges, universities, foundations and organizations. Before entering academia, Dr. Fraser’s was a Legislative Assistant on Capitol Hill. Dr. Fraser has won numerous fellowships and awards from the American Association of University Women (AAUW), American Political Science Association, Columbia and Northwestern University and the Delta Research and Educational Foundation. She holds a doctorate in African American Studies from Northwestern University, and a Master’s of Arts from the Institute for Research in African American Studies at Columbia University and Undergraduate degree in Political Science and African American Studies from Temple University