Rebecca Brenner Graham is the author of Dear Miss Perkins: A Story of Frances Perkins’s Efforts to Aid Refugees from Nazi Germany, forthcoming from Kensington in February 2025. She is a history teacher at the Madeira School and an adjunct professorial lecturer at American University. She holds a Ph.D. in history and an M.A. in public history from American University and a B.A. in history and philosophy from Mount Holyoke College. Her writing has been published in the Washington Post, Slate, and the Los Angeles Review of Books.