Renée T. White is the Provost, Executive Vice President, and Professor of Sociology at The New School for Social Research in New York, USA. Dr. White is the editor of four books, including the co-edited Afrofuturism in Black Panther: Gender, Identity, and the Re-Making of Blackness (2021) and the acclaimed Spoils of War: Women of Color, Cultures, and Revolutions (Bloomsbury 1997). She is the author of Putting Risk in Perspective: Black Teenage Lives in the Era of AIDS (Bloomsbury, 2000). Dr. White has served as editor of the Journal of HIV/AIDS Prevention in Children and Youth and as editorial advisor to the Journal of HIV/AIDS and Social Services.