Ethan MichaeliETHAN MICHAELI is the author of The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America--named a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times and the Washington Post, a winner of Best Nonfiction pizes from both the Chicago Writers Association and the Society of Midland Authors, and short-listed for the Mark Lynton History Prize presented by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Previously, Ethan founded Residents' Journal, a magazine written and produced by the tenants of Chicago's public housing developments and an affiliated not-for-profit organization, We the People Media. Currently a lecturer at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, he is also a senior adviser for communications and development at the Goldin Institute, an international not-for-profit organization collaborating with social change activists in forty different countries. Ethan has served as a judge of national literary contests, and his shorter work has been published by Oxford University Press, the Washington Post, The Atlantic, the Forward, the Chicago Tribune, and other venues. Read More Read Less