Timothy Jacob Wise

Tim Wise is among the nation's leading social critics and has emerged as one of the most prominent new voices in the anti-racist movement. A social justice activist since age 14, Wise has been called a "leftist extremist" by ex-Klansman David Duke, and has received numerous death threats due to his unflinching commitment to fighting racial inequity in education, employment, and the criminal justice system. Wise has spoken to over 75,000 people in 44 states, on over 200 college campuses, and to hundreds of community groups. He has also trained corporate, labor and government officials on how to eliminate institutional racism in their organizations. Wise has conducted anti-bias training for law enforcement officials in Washington and Oregon, and has served as an expert consultant for plaintiff's attorneys in federal racial discrimination cases in New York and Washington State.

In the early 1990's, Wise was Associate Director of the Louisiana Coalition Against Racism and Nazism: the group credited by many with the political defeat of David Duke. Wise has also conducted extensive research on tax and fiscal policy, welfare reform, and international trade for a number of groups, including the World Policy Institute at the New School for Social Research, in New York City. He sits on the advisory boards of the Fisk University Race Relations Institutes, in Nashville, and the Institute for Democratic Education and Culture, in Emeryville, California.

Wise is the author of Hardcover Hate: a soon-to-be-released rebuttal to David Duke's 1998 racial manifesto, and a contributor to the recently published anthology, White Privilege: Essential Reading on the Other Side of Racism, from Worth Publishers. He is also contributing to two upcoming anthologies: Race Revelations: Award-Winning Writers Tackle America's Most Difficult Subject, due out in 2002 from Chicago Review Press, and The Reparations Reader - a compilation of essays concerning slavery and its aftermath, to be published in Fall, 2001 by Harper Collins. His writings are syndicated by AlterNet, and Wise is a regular contributor to the Znet Commentary program: an online service that distributes editorials by prominent left and radical thinkers.

Wise has appeared on hundreds of radio and TV programs, and has squared off against Nazis, "religious right" activists, and noted conservatives, including Dinesh D'Souza, Nathan Glazer, Armstrong Williams, and Ward Connerly. He has been featured incurrent Biography, and articles about his work have appeared in papers and magazines throughout the nation, including the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and Sacramento Bee.

Wise has a B.A. in Political Science from Tulane University. As a student, his efforts in the anti-apartheid movement receive international media attention and the personal thanks of Nelson Mandela, and South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu.