Who We Are

Sikivu Hutchinson

FOUNDER

Sikivu Hutchinson, Ph.D. is an educator and writer with a background in gender and social justice youth leadership, professional development and training, as well as research on culturally responsive teaching, black feminism, women of color feminism, sexual violence, humanism and atheism. As founder of the Women’s Leadership Project and Young Male Scholars’ programs she has successfully assisted first generation, foster care, undocumented, and LGBTQ students of color go on to college and careers.  

Sikivu’s books include Imagining Transit: Race, Gender, and Transportation Politics in Los Angeles, Moral Combat: Black Atheists, Gender Politics, and the Values Wars, and the novel White Nights, Black Paradise, on Peoples Temple and the Jonestown massacre.  She has contributed chapters to The Oxford Handbook of Secularism and Gender and Planning from Rutgers University. She is a contributing editor for The Feminist Wire and her articles have been published in the Washington Post, the Huffington Post, Religion Dispatches, The Humanist Magazine and the L.A. Times. She was a 2014-2015 Visiting Scholar at USC’s Center for Feminist Research and was named Secular Woman’s “Secular Woman of the Year” in 2013.  In 2016, she was invited by the State Department to present her work to community-based organizations, educators and journalists in Johannesburg, Pretoria and Limpopo, South Africa.