Marcia Chatelain is Penn Presidential Compact Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, and was previously Associate Professor of History and African American Studies at Georgetown University. The author of South Side Girls: Growing up in the Great Migration, Chatelain is a public voice on the history of African American children, race in America, as well as social movements. She has been quoted in articles in The New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Washington Post, and has appeared on local television and national outlets including C-SPAN, MSNBC, CNN, BBC-America, and PBS. In 2016, Chatelain was named a “Top Influencer in Higher Education,” by the Chronicle of Higher Education.  Her book Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America earned her the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in History.