Donna Murch is an associate professor of history at Rutgers University and served as the president of the New Brunswick chapter of the Rutgers AAUP-AFT from 2020 to 2024. She is the author of Living for the City: Migration, Education and the Rise of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California, which won the Phillis Wheatley Prize in December 2011, and, most recently, Assata Taught Me: State Violence, Racial Capitalism, and the Movement for Black Lives.