Feminista Jones (b. Michelle Taylor) is an educator, writer, public speaker, community activist, and semi-retired social worker. She is an award-winning writer and the author of the critically acclaimed Reclaiming Our Space: How Black Feminists Are Changing the World From the Tweets to the Streets (Beacon). Her work centers around diversity, inclusion, and equity in media representations, queer identity, race and culture, feminism and intersectionality, mental health, and social work.

Jones obtained her Ph.D. from Temple University where she also teaches courses on the African American LGBTQ Experience, The Black Woman, Race and Mass Media, and others related to the intersections of race, gender, sexual identity, and media. She holds an MSW from Hunter College (CUNY) where she studied organizational leadership and management and she is an alumna of the University of Pennsylvania where she obtained her B.A.

Jones’ passion and talent for writing have led to her being featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, Time, Essence, Out, Complex, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Salon, and EBONY magazine to name a few publications. She currently operates her own subscription-based platform and contributes to various publications as a freelancer and commissioned writer. She’s also been featured on the Oprah Winfrey Network, MSNBC, Huffington Post Live, and more.

Because of her work as an activist, Jones has been extensively featured in publications around the world, including The Boston Globe, Detroit Free Press, The Guardian, Ms., The New York Times, NBC News, Newsweek, NPR, The Washington Post, USA Today and The Intercept.

Since 2013, Jones has presented and lectured at various colleges and universities, including Princeton, Cornell, Columbia, Boston University, UC Berkeley, and The University of Pennsylvania. Represented by the American Program Bureau, Jones is a highly sought-after lecturer, panelist, and keynote speaker for major conferences and has been a featured speaker at several, including Stanford's Online Feminism Conference, Drexel's Racism in Medicine Conference, the Society for Social Work and Research Conference, Netroots Nation, SXSW, and more. In 2018, she was honored to give the Baccalaureate speech during Vassar College’s Commencement weekend.

In 2014, she launched a global anti-street harassment campaign (#YouOKSis) and a National Moment of Silence protesting police brutality (#NMOS14), both of which received international media attention. That year, she was named one of the Top 100 Black Social Influencers by The Root. In 2015, she co-founded and served as General Director of the Women’s Freedom Conference, the first all-digital conference completely organized by and featuring only Women of Color. For her work, she was named one of SheKnows 2015 “Voices of the Year”. In 2017, Jones was named one of the 100 Most Influential People in Philadelphia by Philadelphia magazine and was later featured in Philadelphia Style magazine for her community work. In 2020, Jones was named one of the "Bitch 50", honoring the work of feminist women around the world, and one of the 76 Most Influential People in Philadelphia.

In 2019, Jones joined two of her closest friends to create Black Girl Missing, a true-crime podcast that focuses on the stories of missing African American girls in the United States. In 2020, Jones founded Sankofa Summer School, a virtual Afrocentric community school for students and adults aged 14+.

Jones is also a mom, a consultant in organizational leadership, management, culture, and diversity, a mentor to young girls and women, and an outspoken advocate for the homeless, people living in poverty, and those living with psychiatric disabilities. And, Feminista loves cats.