Rosalind Hinton is an oral historian, independent scholar, educator, non-profit fundraising
consultant and activist. She is currently a cultural editor of the journal Cross Currents.
She is a co-founder and participant in the Wikipedia User: Group Women in Religion, which creates, updates, and improves Wikipedia articles pertaining to the lives of cis and transgender women scholars, activists, and practitioners in the world's religious, indigenous, spiritual, and wisdom traditions. Her scholarship and activism focus on intersectional issues around culture, music and the religious traditions of New Orleans, environmental issues and sexuality and reproductive health.
Hinton created laoutloud.wp.tulane.edu and nolajewishwomen.tulane.edu, websites
dedicated to storytelling and narrative forms of public scholarship. She re-opened the Center for
the Gulf South at Tulane University Post-Katrina with Dr. Larry Powell. She taught at DePaul,
Tulane and Loyola of New Orleans Universities. She has a PhD in Religious Studies from
Northwester.