Asale Angel-Ajani

Asale Angel-Ajani is a writer and professor at The City College of New York, where she serves as the director of the Women's and Gender Studies Program. She is the author of the novel 'A Country You Can Leave' and the nonfiction books 'Strange Trade: The Story of Two Women Who Risked Everything in the International Drug Trade' and 'Intimate: Essays on Racial Terror'. She holds a PhD in Anthropology from Stanford University and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Hong Kong.