Linda Carty

Who is Linda Carty?

Dr Linda Carty is a sociologist, activist, feminist and educator from Canada . She is also an author and essayist and has also made contributions on environmental justice issues in Onondaga County in Ms Magazine.

Carty received her PhD from the University of Toronto in 1989. She currently teaches at Syracuse University in the Department of African American Studies at Syracuse university. She previously served as the Chair for this department. She is also a professor of Sociology with the Maxwell school of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse.

She has been involved in HIV/AIDS work and Black Women's labor struggles in Canada, the U.S, and the Caribbean.