--- title: Savala Nolan | TIME description: Nolan is Executive Director of the Center for Social Justice at UC Berkeley School of Law. Her new book is Don't Let It Get You Down: Essays on Race, Gender and the Body. You can follow her on Instagram and on her blog. canonical: https://time.com/author/savala-trepczynski/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/savala-trepczynski/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Savala Nolan ## Savala Nolan Nolan is Executive Director of the Center for Social Justice at UC Berkeley School of Law. Her new book is [Don't Let It Get You Down: Essays on Race, Gender and the Body](https://bookshop.org/a/4973/9781982137267). You can follow her on [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/notquitebeyonce/) and on her [blog](http://savalat.com/). ## Savala Nolan *  Aug 25, 2022 ### [Biden's Student Loan Forgiveness Plan Doesn't Do Enough for Black Americans](https://time.com/6208535/black-americans-biden-student-loans-plan/) Biden's plan to cancel student debt is not a big or bold enough and it completely misses the mark fo... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  May 25, 2022 ### [America Needs to Examine Its Relationship to Black Suffering](https://time.com/6180833/americans-images-of-black-suffering/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Feb 7, 2022 ### [It's Time For White People to Have Tough Conversations](https://time.com/6145211/white-people-tough-conversations-race/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Jul 16, 2021 ### [My Father's Life Was Shaped by Racism. So Was His Death](https://time.com/6080755/my-fathers-life-shaped-by-racism-so-was-his-death/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Aug 17, 2020 ### [White People Should Be Twice as Kind Now](https://time.com/5871387/white-people-must-be-twice-as-kind/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Jun 1, 2020 ### [Column: White People Need to Understand Whiteness](https://time.com/5846072/black-people-protesting-white-people-responsible-what-happens-next/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/savala-trepczynski/","name":"Savala Nolan"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/savala-trepczynski/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/savala-trepczynski/"},"name":"Savala Nolan","jobTitle":null,"description":"Nolan is Executive Director of the Center for Social Justice at UC Berkeley School of Law. Her new book is Don't Let It Get You Down: Essays on Race, Gender and the Body. You can follow her on Instagram and on her blog.","url":"https://time.com/author/savala-trepczynski/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```