Piper Dellums is an American author and public speaker.
[1][2] Dellums is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, where she studied psychology, biology, and theater.
She also earned a graduate degree in drama therapy with an emphasis in biochemistry at New York University.
[3] Dellums' story about a white South African girl coming to live with her family in the 1970s, titled "Simunye", was the basis for the Emmy Award-winning Disney movie The Color of Friendship (2000).
[4] Dellums travels throughout America speaking at conferences and workshops about her humanitarian work.