Shirley Thomas (USC professor)

Shirley Thomas is a professor at the University of Southern California. She studies and teaches about topics like race, gender, sexuality, and social inequality. In her classes, Shirley tries to help her students understand how groups of people with different views of the world are impacted and interact with each other. She wants to help her students become better people who can think about everyone fairly and treat everyone equally. Shirley is also a leading researcher on these topics, which means she does studies and writes about her findings so that other people can learn from her work.