Grace Lee Boggs is an activist, scholar, writer, community organizer and speaker whose sixty years of political involvement encompass the major U.S. political and social movements of this century: Labor, Civil rights, Black Power, Asian American, women's and Environmental Justice movements.

Born in Providence, R.I. of Chinese immigrant parents in l915, she received her B.A. from Barnard College in l935 and her Ph.D. in Philosophy from Bryn Mawr College in l940. In the l940s and l950s she worked with West Indian Marxist historian C.L.R.James and in l953 she came to Detroit where she married James Boggs, African American labor activist, writer and strategist. Working together in innumerable grassroots groups and projects, including the National Organization for an American Revolution (l970s and l980s), Detroiters Uniting and We the People Reclaim Our Streets (WE-PROS), they were intellectual, personal and political partners for over 40 years until James' death in July l993. Their book, Revolution and Evolution in the Twentieth Century, was published by Monthly Review Press in l974.

In l992, with James Boggs and others, she founded DETROIT SUMMER-a multi-cultural, intergenerational youth program to rebuild, redefine and respirit Detroit from the ground up- which completed its ninth season in June 2000. Currently she is active in the Detroit Agricultural Network and the Committee for the Political Resurrection of Detroit. She writes a column in the weekly Michigan Citizen, does a monthly commentary on WORT (Madison, Wisconsin), and speaks to community and university groups in Detroit and around the country.

Her autobiography, Living for Change,, published by the University of Minnesota Press in March l998, is in its second printing.