Patricia Hill Collins, renowned sociologist and Distinguished University Professor Emerita, University of Maryland, has been selected as the 2023 Berggruen Prize for Philosophy & Culture Laureate. The Prize Jury selected Collins for how her work provides a powerful analytical lens through which we can envision the different and intersecting ways in which our material, social, and cultural worlds produce injustice and mutilate human possibilities. In addition, her work has given us “original vocabulary with which to think about social power and contestation.” The first Black laureate of the Berggruen Prize, Collins is a groundbreaking knowledge creator whose exploration of the interchange between theory and practice have transformed notions of power and justice, and have resonated heavily across politics, commerce, and mass culture.