Lynn Weber is a Professor of Psychology and Women's and Gender Studies at the University of South Carolina. For more than thirty years, she has led in developing the field of intersectionality examining the nexus between race, class, gender, sexuality, and other dimensions of inequality. In addition to her work on the Mississippi Gulf Coast and in conjunction with a national research network on persons displaced by Hurricane Katrina, she and Lori Peek edited Displaced: Life in the Katrina Diaspora (2012).