Suzanne Cope, PhD is a narrative journalist and scholar whose recent book is POWER HUNGRY: Women of the Black Panther Party and Freedom Summer and Their Fight to Feed a Movement. She has published with The New York Times, The Atlantic, Washington Post, CNN, BBC, among others and also actively publishes and presents in academic forums. She is a professor at New York University. Her upcoming book WOMEN OF WAR: The Italian Assassins, Couriers and Spies Who Helped Defeat the Nazis will be published in April 2025. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, the musician Steve Mayone, and her two children.