Lurie Daniel Favors is an attorney and the author of Afro State of Mind: Memories of a Nappy Headed Black Girl©. This book traces Lurie’s journey—from the hot comb, the Jheri curl, the perm and the Big Chop, all the way through her life as all-natural attorney defending high-profile cases in a racist court system. As she examines the history behind nappiness, Lurie learns that Black hair, identity and skin color are international cultural experiences—with personal and political power. Find out more at afrostateofmind.com. Lurie has an intimate understanding of the ways in which the politics of beauty and identity has meaning beyond our personal styles. Before graduating from New York University School of Law, she co-founded Sankofa Community Empowerment, Inc. (“SCE”), a non-profit organization that creates and implements community development programs structured to empower disenfranchised communities. She also co-founded Breaking the Cycle Consulting LLC, an educational consulting firm that trains educators to use culturally responsive teaching to increase academic achievement in at risk student populations. In both endeavors, Lurie addresses the importance of identity, skin color and hair politics as it pertains to the development of women and girls. Prior to joining a racial justice law center as General Counsel in New York City, Ms. Daniel Favors was a corporate finance associate in the New York offices of Manatt Phelps and Phillips, LLP and Proskauer Rose LLP. She served as a law clerk in the Chambers of the Honorable Sterling Johnson, Jr., in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. You can contact her at info@afrostateofmind.com or follow her on twitter @afrostateofmind.