The second presenter, Emma Carmichael, an undergraduate student at Vassar College, impressed Capistrano with her in-depth research on hip-hop and Black culture during “Women Rap.” Carmichael spoke of her senior thesis on female MCs.
For this, she interviewed several Black female artists who self-produce and promote their own albums. Because these women are not conforming to the hyper-sexualized commercial look or being brought into the hip-hop realm by a male, they have to redefine what success means for them, said Carmichael.
