Racial Justice Fellows, 2005-2006

Kay Mills
Author/Freelance Writer

Kay Mills is an author and freelance writer specializing in civil rights and higher education issues. She has been a journalist for 40 years. Mills received a B.A. in political science from Penn State and an M.A. in history from Northwestern. She has worked for UPI in Chicago, the Baltimore Evening Sun, Newhouse News Service’s Washington bureau and from 1978 to 1990 as an editorial writer at the Los Angeles Times and assistant Opinion section editor from 1990 until September 1991. She won the Julia Cherry Spruill Publication Prize given by the Southern Association for Women Historians and a Christopher Award for her biography of civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer, “This Little Light of Mine.” She has also written books about women in the newspaper business, Head Start, U.S. women’s history and a landmark Mississippi communications law case. Mills writes for National Crosstalk, a quarterly higher education newspaper. She has been a Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford and an Alicia Patterson Fellow and has held the Ferris Professorship at Princeton.

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