Patricia Reid-Merritt

PATRICIA REID-MERRITT is a Distinguished Professor Emerita of Social Work and Africana Studies at Stockton University in Galloway, New Jersey, and the author of the national Blackboard bestseller Sister Power: How Phenomenal Black Women Are Rising to the Top. Her recent books include Righteous Self-Determination: The Black Social Work Movement in America, Sister Wisdom: 7 Pathways to a Satisfying Life for Soulful Black Women, and Sister Power: How Phenomenal Black Women Are Rising to the Top.

Reid-Merritt holds a Doctorate of Social Work in Race, Law and Social Policy from the University of Pennsylvania and has received the Carter G. Woodson/Mary McLeod Bethune Award from the National Council for Black Studies and the NAACP Freedom Award.

When she’s not writing, Reid-Merritt serves as founder and artistic director of Afro-One Dance, Drama and Drum Theatre, Inc., a community-based performing arts organization in southern New Jersey.

Patricia Reid-Merritt’s books are published by Turner Publishing.

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