Biography

Farah Jasmine Griffin was born in 1963 in the USA. She has been married to Obery M. Hendricks since November 8, 2008.

She is the professor of comparative literature and African American studies at Columbia University and the director of the Institute for Research in African American Studies at Columbia University in New York City.

She is the daughter of Wilhelmena Griffin of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and the late Emerson M. Griffin.

She is the daughter-in-law of the late Willie B. Hendricks and the late Obery Hendricks Sr. of East Orange, New Jersey.

She graduated from Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts and earned her doctoral degree in American Studies at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.

She teaches at Columbia University in New York City.