Sophia A. Nelson

Sophia A. Nelson is an award-winning author, journalist, and university scholar/adjunct professor in Virginia. Nelson is a USA Today columnist and contributing editor to thegrio.com as well as a contributor to the Washington Post. You can see her regularly on MSNBC, CNN, and PBS as a legal and political analyst. She was most recently a scholar-in-residence and adjunct professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Christopher Newport University. She is a former investigative counsel to the US House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Reform, and senior counsel with the international law firm of Holland & Knight, LLP. She is the author of three other nonfiction books: Black Woman Redefined, The Woman Code, and ePluribus One.