Loren Cahill

Loren Cahill is a scholar, creative, organizer, cultural worker, popular educator, and bibliophile from St. Louis. Her professional training is in participatory action research, liberation psychology, and Black feminism. Loren is an assistant professor at Smith College School for Social Work where she teaches courses on community organizing, movement building, antiracism, and critical research methods. Her research explores how self-expression and self-determination lead to healing and wellness in the individual and collective lives of Black people. The interventions living inside of Black activism, organizing, and art provide the axis around which all of her scholarly pursuits rotate. Loren also serves as the inaugural Scholar-in-Residence at The Colored Girls Museum. Loren is positively obsessed with the ways that bodies, books, and built environments can offer freedom.