 Anti-Racism Educator
ZNet Columnist, and
Director, Association for White Anti-Racist Education (AWARE)
Nashville, Tennessee
info@speakoutnow.org
Tim Wise is among the most prominent anti-racist writers and activists in the U.S., having spoken to over 80,000 people in 48 states, and on over 350 college campuses, including Harvard, Stanford, and the Law Schools at Yale, Columbia, and Vanderbilt. He has trained teachers as well as corporate, government, media and law enforcement officials on methods for dismantling racism in their institutions, and has served as a consultant for plaintiff¹s attorneys in federal discrimination cases in New York and Washington State.
In Summer 2005, Wise served as adjunct faculty at the Smith College School of Social Work, in Northampton, MA, where he co-taught a Master's level class on Racism in the United States. From 1999 to 2003, Wise served as an advisor to the Fisk University Race Relations Institute and in the early '90s was Associate Director of the Louisiana Coalition Against Racism and Nazism, the largest of the many groups responsible for the political defeat of neo-Nazi, David Duke.
Wise received the 2002 National Youth Advocacy Coalition's Social Justice Impact Award in recognition of his contributions to the struggle for equity, as well as the 2001 British Diversity Award, for best feature column on race and diversity issues
Wise serves as the Race and Ethnicity Editor for LiP Magazine, and his bi-monthly columns are distributed as part of the ZNet Commentary program: a web service that disseminates essays by prominent progressive and radical activists and educators.
He is the author of Disasters, Natural and Otherwise: Race, Class and Hurricane Katrina (City Lights Books), White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son (Soft Skull Press) and Affirmative Action: Racial Preference in Black and White (Routledge). He has contributed essays to a dozen books and anthologies including White Privilege: Essential Readings on the Other Side of Racism and Should America Pay?: Slavery and the Raging Debate on Reparations. Wise is also featured in White Men Challenging Racism: Thirty-Five Personal Stories (Duke University Press).
Wise received his B.A. from Tulane University, but more importantly, antiracism training from the People's Institute for Survival and Beyond, both in New Orleans. |
