Brea Baker is a writer and activist whose book, ROOTED: The American Legacy of Land Theft & The Modern Movement for Black Land Ownership, details her family's experiences across the South and makes another case for reparations to include land distribution. ROOTED has been celebrated in The New Yorker, The Guardian, Apple Books, the New York Times, iHeart Radio's The Breakfast Club, Harper's BAZAAR, Ms. Magazine, and was honored as a BCALA 2024 Nonfiction Honor award winner.
With a B.A. in Political Science from Yale University, Brea also regularly contributes reported op-eds and personal essays to ELLE and Refinery 29 Unbothered with other bylines in Harper's BAZAAR, The Nation, Oprah Daily, THEM, Coveteur, The Progressive, Mission Magazine, Nonprofit Quarterly, and Inside Philanthropy. Brea is a collective member of BLIS (Black Liberation, Indigenous Sovereignty) as well as the Highland Project, and is on the board of YWCA USA, The Gathering for Justice, and Black Farmers' Market NC. She is currently working on her next book - a biography of Jazz Age artist and nightclub owner, Bricktop, coming out in the summer of 2027.