Porscha Burke

PROGRAM MODERATOR

Porscha Burke is Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Strategy and Senior Editor-at-Large at Random House—where, since 2004, she’s supported executives, edited works by Dr. Maya Angelou, Jon Meacham, Candice Benbow, Bryant Terry, Kathy Iandoli, Queen Afua, Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr. and Christopher Benson, Connie Briscoe and Milton Washington, and Sean Kantrowitz, among others, and spearheaded new editions of The Autobiography of Malcolm X and The Black Book, originally edited by Toni Morrison.

A Queens, New York native and University of Virginia graduate, Porscha received her MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Goucher College, where she currently teaches.