Suzanne Pharr is an American organizer, political strategist, and author who has worked to build a broad-based social justice movement in the United States. Pharr authored the books Homophobia: A Weapon of Sexism (1988) and In the Time of the Right: Reflections on Liberation (1996). In 1988, she co-chaired Jesse Jackson’s presidential campaign in Arkansas. From 1999 to 2004, she served as director for the Highlander Research and Education Center, a historic, civil rights organization based in New Market, TN. Pharr is active currently with grassroots movements, including Project South, the Southern Movement Assembly; the Rural Organizing Project; and Grassroots Arkansas.