Originally from Lafayette, Louisiana, Courtney Young is now a certified New Yorker. She is currently completing two books, the first of which is entitled Color Me Color Struck: How Colorism Marginalizes Women of Color in Popular Culture of which she serves as the editor. The second book is a collection of essays entitled From Michelle to Madea: Images of Black Women in the Media about the ways in which Black women are represented in media and pop culture and will be published by the Feminist Press in June 2010. She is a commentator, filmmaker, and writer of both fiction and popular culture criticism, having published in arenas such as The Nation, The Grio, and Popmatters.com. She received her Bachelor's Degree in English and Management in 2002 from Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia. While an undergraduate student, she completed the Tuck Business Bridge Program in the summer of 2000 at Dartmouth College and in the summer of 2001 was a research fellow at UCLA's Summer Humanities Institute. In 2004, she graduated from New York University receiving her Master's Degree from the Gallatin School of Individualized Study. She blogs at: http://thethirtymilewoman.wordpress.com. You can follow her on twitter at: www.twitter.com/cocacy.

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