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Tim Wise, whom scholar and philosopher Cornel West calls, A vanilla brother in the tradition of (abolitionist) John Brown, is among the nations most prominent antiracist essayists and educators. He has spent the past 20 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 began his career 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 90s to defeat the political candidacies of white supremacist, David Duke. From there, he became a community organizer in New Orleans public housing, and a policy analyst for a childrens advocacy group focused on combatting poverty and economic inequity. He has served as an adjunct professor at the Smith College School of Social Work, in Northampton, MA., and from 1999-2003 was an advisor to the Fisk University Race Relations Institute in Nashville, TN.

Wise is the author of six books, including his highly-acclaimed memoir, White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son, as well as Dear White America: Letter to a New Minority, and Colorblind: The Rise of Post-Racial Politics and the Retreat from Racial Equity. His latest volume, Culture of Cruelty: How Americas Elite Demonize the Poor, Valorize the Rich and Jeopardize the Future, will be released in 2014. He has contributed chapters or essays to over 25 additional books and his writings are taught in colleges and universities across the nation.

Wise has been featured in several documentaries, including the 2013 Media Education Foundation release, White Like Me: Race, Racism and White Privilege in America. The film, which he co-wrote and co-produced, has been called A phenomenal educational tool in the struggle against racism, and One of the best films made on the unfinished quest for racial justice, by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva of Duke University, and Robert Jensen of the University of Texas, respectively. He also appeared alongside legendary scholar and activist, Angela Davis, in the 2011 documentary, Vocabulary of Change. In this public dialogue between the two activists, Davis and Wise discussed the connections between issues of race, class, gender, sexuality and militarism, as well as inter-generational movement building and the prospects for social change.

Wise appears regularly on CNN and MSNBC to discuss race issues and was featured in a 2007 segment on 20/20. He graduated from Tulane University in 1990 and received antiracism training from the Peoples Institute for Survival and Beyond, in New Orleans. He and his wife Kristy are the proud parents of two daughters.

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