Lauren Eglen

Lauren Eglen is a PhD candidate at the University of Nottingham. Her project explores how black women’s leadership operates in different institutional spaces. Using the activism of Esther Cooper Jackson as a particular focus, she looks at how African American women adopted varying leadership styles and strategies relative to the space in which they were working. Her project complicates current narratives of black women’s leadership in the long black freedom struggle, demonstrating the ways in which space shapes activist strategy and moving beyond the local/national binary of current leadership scholarship.