Myisha Cherry is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside. She is also the Director of the Emotion and Society Lab and host of The UnMute Podcast, which she started in 2014. Her research is primarily concerned with the role of emotions and attitudes in public life.

Cherry’s books include The Case for Rage: Why Anger is Essential to Anti-racist Struggle published by Oxford University Press, UnMuted: Conversations on Prejudice, Oppression, and Social Justice (Oxford University Press) and, co-edited with Owen Flanagan, The Moral Psychology of Anger (Rowman & Littlefield). Her latest book is “The Failures of Forgiveness” (Princeton University Press). Her forthcoming book includes “How to Love” currently under contract at Riverhead Press (US) and Basic Books (UK).

Her work on emotions and race has appeared in The Atlantic, Boston Review, Los Angeles Times, Salon, Huffington Post, WomanKind, and New Philosopher Magazine. Cherry is also the host of the UnMute Podcast, where she interviews philosophers about the social and political issues of our day.