She is the most captivating of all the lecturers for this cluster and is quite approachable as well. As for the cluster itself, do not take it if you are looking for an easy "A." The topic is very broad and the essays are graded pretty tough. Also, the readings take a big time commitment.

This year they tried to make the class less easy by adding lots of participating grade percentage, but the distribution is highly unreasonable. You get 30% for several class pop quizzes which tests your memory on trivial, factual questions, while in the meantime, it remains an easy A.
However, I do recommend this course as a GE because it really affects your way of thinking about activism if you are willing to do so. You don't have to agree with the professor or TAs at all because this is exactly a course on debatable issues. Initially I thought that the professor was too radical on her pan-Africanism by phrasing the modern incarceration as aiming to eliminate minorities, but as I learned more, her words started to make sense --- not that I agree 100% but this theory is scientifically grounded.
Especially it inspired me a lot about navigating through activism, myself having experienced numerous human right inequalities with regards to sexuality and race. I've seen people right in this course being disrespectful to those unprivileged (and yes savage things still happen in the year of 9102), so I would say that this kind of education is imperative for students here.

This is a very easy and interesting GE, so long as you COME TO CLASS. Don't skip class or discussion. They modified this course from prior years so that you can't just skip without it affecting your grade. There are iClicker quizzes usually 1-2 times a week, so plan for that however you wish. There are weekly reading responses which are graded very leniently. Lastly, there is a very open-ended final project, and you have the option to do it in groups of up to 5 people, which I highly recommend forming. You could push it off all the way until the week it's due and complete it by yourself in like a day or two of reasonable effort (just do a time capsule).

This class is probably the most interesting, yet, easiest class I've ever taken. There is no midterm but weekly summaries or notes you took on the readings of the chapters. The final consists of either a paper, physical project, and time capsule, etc. I went to lecture the first two weeks and only showed up to discussion which is mandatory. Her book is well written and if you can just read the assigned chapters (very short book) you can easily get the A.