Brea Baker (she/her) is a writer and activist whose book, ROOTED: The American Legacy of Land Theft & The Modern Movement for Black Land Ownership, was published with PRH/One World Books. ROOTED details her family’s experiences across the South and makes another case for reparations to include land distribution. ROOTED has been celebrated in The New Yorker, The Guardian, Apple Books, the New York Times, iHeart Radio’s The Breakfast Club, Harper’s BAZAAR, Ms. Magazine, and was selected as the Black Caucus of the American Library Association’s 2024 Nonfiction Honor Book. With a B.A. in Political Science from Yale University, Brea believes deeply in political imagination and the need for nuanced storytelling that doubles as ancestral veneration. She regularly contributes reported op-eds and personal essays to ELLE and Refinery 29 Unbothered. Brea is a Collective Member of BLIS (Black Liberation, Indigenous Sovereignty) as well as the Highland Project, and is on the board of YWCA USA, The Gathering for Justice, and Black Farmers’ Market NC.