Dr. Jaime Grant

Jaime Grant, Director of the Policy Institute at the Task Force, holds a Ph. D. in Women’s Studies from the Union Institute where she studied with Minnie Bruce Pratt, Barbara Smith and queer historian John D’Emilio. For six years, she directed the Union Institute’s Center for Women, the nation’s only academic women’s center dedicated to collaborations between scholars and activists. Her articles on transformational organizations and coalition work have been published in major academic journals and anthologies.

A femme and a feminist, a sex radical and a mom, Grant lives in the Petworth neighborhood of DC with her partner and their two children.