Meet the Author, Danielle Prescod-

Danielle Prescod is a 15-year veteran of the beauty and fashion industry. She is a lifelong fashion obsessive who spent her formative years in uniforms and relished in the opportunity for self-expression (and attention) that fashion provided. She was raised in Westchester and attended school in Greenwich, Connecticut, where she was uniquely positioned as one of the few students of color at her all-girls prep school.

A graduate of NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study, Danielle has always been an avid reader and writer. She primarily dedicates her time to researching how subjects like feminism and social justice intersect with pop culture. She considers a decent amount of bad taste to be healthy. She loves Tik Tok, the arts, and staying active.

About the Book-

Danielle Prescod grew up Black in an elite and overwhelmingly white community, her identity made more invisible by the whitewashed movies, television, magazines, and books she and her classmates voraciously consumed. Danielle took her cue from the world around her and aspired to shrink her identity into that box, setting increasingly poisonous goals. She started painful and damaging chemical hair treatments in elementary school, began depriving herself of food when puberty hit, and tried to control her image through the most unimpeachable, impeccable fashion choices.

Sharp witted and bracingly candid, Token Black Girl unpacks the adverse effects of insidious white supremacy in the media—both unconscious and strategic—to tell a personal story about recovery from damaging concepts of perfection, celebrating identity, and demolishing social conditioning.