Melinda Chateauvert is currently an independent scholar who taught courses on the civil rights movement, social justice organizing, gender and sexuality in African American families, sex work and gendered labor, and law and public policy for more than two decades. She holds a B.A. in Women’s Studies from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and an M.A. in Women’s Studies from the George Washington University; she earned her Ph.D. in United States History from the University of Pennsylvania in 1992. “Marching Together” Women of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters was published by the University of Illinois Press in 1998; a study of gender roles in mid-twentieth century civil rights campaigns organized by A. Philip Randolph recently appeared in Reconsidering Randolph (Kersten and Lang, eds., New York University Press, December 2014). Her latest book, Sex Workers Unite! A history of the movement from Stonewall to SlutWalk was published by Beacon Press in January 2014 (paperback available March 2015). Mindy has a long record of activism on civil rights, sexual citizenship, and queer justice movements; she has served on the boards of the Leather Archives and Museum in Chicago and for HIPS (Helping Individual Prostitutes Survive) in Washington, DC, and is an advisor to Women With A Vision in New Orleans.