b'PREMILLANADASENFEATURE INTERVIEWPremillaNadasen isa professor of history at Barnard College and president of the National Womens StudiesAssociation. She has published extensively on the multiple meanings of feminism, alternative labor movements,and grassroots community organizing and is most interested in visions of social change and the ways poor andworking-classwomenofcolorhavefoughtforsocialjustice.Sheistheauthoroftwoaward-winningbooks,Household Workers Unite: The Untold Story of African American Women Who Built a Movement(Beacon2015)and WelfareWarriors: TheWelfareRightsMovementintheUnitedStates (Routledge2005),and iscurrently writing a biography of South African singer and anti-apartheid activist Miriam Makeba.Nadasen hasbeen engaged with community and campus activism for many years, bridging academic and activist work bymakingherscholarlyworkaccessibletopeopleoutsidetheuniversity.ShehasworkedwiththeNationalDomestic Workers Alliance, Damayan Migrant Workers Association, and the Mississippi Low-Income Child CareInitiative. She writes for both academic and nonacademic outlets and speaks widely on issues of social justice,feminism, public policy, and anti-racist organizing. She can be contacted atpnadasen@barnard.eduor Twitter:@premillanadasenNannyMag.com 5'