Linda Burnham has been organizing and writing on racial justice and peace issues in the U.S. since the 1960s, and on women-of-colour issues since the early 1970s. She was a leader in the Third World Women’s Alliance, and in 1990, together with Miriam Ching Louie, she co-founded Women of Color Resource Center. Burnham has published numerous articles on African-American women, African-American politics, and feminist theory.  She edited the anthology, Changing the Race: Racial Politics and the Election of Barack Obama. and is the co-author of the recently released report "Home Economics: The Invisible and Unregulated World of Domestic Work." She is the Research Director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance in the USA