This week we interview Tyrone McKinley Freeman, an award-winning associate professor of Philanthropic Studies and director of undergraduate programs at Indiana University’s Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. His latest book, Madam C.J. Walker’s Gospel of Giving: Black Women’s Philanthropy During Jim Crow, was published by the University of Illinois Press in September 2020. His work has appeared or been cited in the New York Times, O: The Oprah Magazine, TIME, Harvard Business Review, Stanford Social Innovation Review, News One, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, CASE Currents, and Advancing Philanthropy. Tyrone McKinley Freeman was interviewed online, via Zoom, on November 22, 2021, by fellow biographer and BIO member Sonja Williams.