Salamishah Tillet, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Salamishah Tillet

American academic at University of Pennsylvania

Date of Birth: 25-Aug-1975

Place of Birth: Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Profession: activist, social critic, erudite

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Salamishah Margaret Tillet (born August 25, 1975) is a scholar, activist, social critic, and media personality, and an associate professor of English and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
She is the co-founder of A Long Walk Home, a Chicago-based national non-profit organization that uses art to educate and empower young people to end violence against girls and women.
In 2010, the University of Pennsylvania awarded Tillet the Edmund J.
and Louise W.
Kahn Award for Distinguished Teaching by an Assistant Professor at the University.
She was the 2010-2011 recipient of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Fellow for Career Enhancement; in 2013-14, she was a Scholar-in-Residence at the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.