Brittnay Proctor-Habil received her PhD in African American Studies from Northwestern University and is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Race and Media in the School of Media Studies at The New School. Her research interests include: Black Studies; black popular music and culture, Gender and Sexuality Studies, black feminist theory, sound studies, visual culture, and performance.

She is the author of Minnie Riperton’s Come to My Garden (Bloomsbury Press: 33 1/3 Series).