Tim Wise is among the nation’s most prominent antiracist essayists and educators who has spent the past 25 years speaking to audiences in all 50 states, on over 1000 college and high school campuses, at hundreds of professional and academic conferences, and to community groups across the nation. He has also lectured internationally in Canada and Bermuda, and has trained corporate, government, law enforcement and medical industry professionals on methods for dismantling racism in their institutions. Wise’s antiracism work traces back to his days as a college activist in the 1980s, fighting for divestment from (and economic sanctions against) apartheid South Africa. After graduation, he threw himself into social justice efforts full-time, as a Youth Coordinator and Associate Director of the Louisiana Coalition Against Racism and Nazism: the largest of the many groups organized in the early 1990s to defeat the political candidacies of white supremacist and former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. His books include White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son; Dear White America: Letter to a New Minority; and Dispatches from the Race War. His essays have appeared in The Washington Post, as well as on Alternet, Salon, Counterpunch, Yes!, Politico, Black Commentator and The Root, which named Wise one of the “8 Wokest White People We Know.”