Resmaa Menakem is a psychotherapist specializing in the effects of trauma on the human body.

Resmaa Menakem

Dr. Resmaa Menakem is an author, artist, and psychotherapist specializing in the effects of racialized trauma on the human body. His New York Times best-selling book, My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending our Hearts and Bodies, is the first self-discovery book to examine the embodied legacy of racism and white body supremacy in America from the perspective of trauma and body-centered psychology. The book remains one of the leading works on embodying the lessons of antiracism.