Ethan Michaeli is the author of two award-win­ning non-fic­tion books, Twelve Tribes: Promise and Per­il in the New Israel, (Harp­er Collins, 2021) and The Defend­er: How the Leg­endary Black News­pa­per Changed Amer­i­ca, (Houghton Mif­flin Har­court, 2016). Judges for the Low­ell Thomas Book Award not­ed that Twelve Tribes ​“delves deep into the divi­sions that have made con­tem­po­rary Israel what it is — and what it is not.” The Defend­er was acclaimed by The New York Times as ​“a tow­er­ing achieve­ment that will not be soon for­got­ten,” and was named as a Notable Book of 2016 by The New York Times, The Wash­ing­ton Post and Ama­zon. Ethan is cur­rent­ly work­ing on a new book about the polit­i­cal part­ner­ship between Jew­ish and African Amer­i­cans. He is a Lec­tur­er at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Chica­go, and a Senior Advi­sor for Com­mu­ni­ca­tions and Devel­op­ment at the Goldin Insti­tute, an inter­na­tion­al not-for-prof­it orga­ni­za­tion col­lab­o­rat­ing with grass­roots activists in 40 dif­fer­ent countries.