Moya Bailey

Moya Bailey, Ph.D.

Moya Bailey
  • Visiting Scholar, Center for Media at Risk
  • Professor of Communication Studies, Northwestern University

Moya Bailey is a professor at Northwestern University. Her work focuses on marginalized groups’ use of digital media to promote social justice. She studies race, gender, disability, and sexuality in media and medicine.

Moya Bailey is a professor at Northwestern University, the founder of the Digital Apothecary, and co-founder of the Black Feminist Health Science Studies Collective. Her work focuses on marginalized groups’ use of digital media to promote social justice, and she is interested in how race, gender, and sexuality are represented in media and medicine. She is the digital alchemist for the Octavia E. Butler Legacy Network, and the Board President of Allied Media Projects, a Detroit-based movement media organization that supports an ever-growing network of activists and organizers. She is a co-author of #HashtagActivism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice (MIT Press, 2020) and is the author of Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women’s Digital Resistance (New York University Press, 2021).

Education

  • B.A., Spelman College, 2005
  • Ph.D., Emory University, 2013