Karima A. Robinson, PhD is a playwright, performer, theatre director, and educator. Dr. Robinson performs excerpts of her solo-performance piece about poet Phillis Wheatley entitled, Farewell to America: A Phillis Wheatley Story. She also performs a solo-performance piece about the life of anti-lynching advocate Ida B. Wells entitled, Colored People's Day: Ida B. Wells at the Chicago World's Fair. Dr. Robinson has directed staged readings of her plays Outraged! and Ivory.