Ethan Michaeli is the award-win­ning author of The Defend­er: How the Leg­endary Black News­pa­per Changed Amer­i­ca, which was named a Notable Book of 2016 by The New York Times, The Wash­ing­ton Post, and Ama­zon; won both the Chica­go Writ­ers Asso­ci­a­tion and Mid­land Authors Asso­ci­a­tion Best Non­fic­tion of 2016 prizes; and was short­list­ed for the Mark Lyn­ton Prize pre­sent­ed by the Colum­bia Uni­ver­si­ty Grad­u­ate School of Jour­nal­ism. He is the founder of the 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. Ethan’s work has been pub­lished by Oxford Uni­ver­si­ty Press, Atlantic Mag­a­zine, The Nation, The For­ward, In These Times, The Chica­go Tri­bune, and oth­er venues. He cur­rent­ly teach­es at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Chica­go and is a senior advis­er for com­mu­ni­ca­tions and devel­op­ment at the Goldin Insti­tute, an inter­na­tion­al not-for-prof­it orga­ni­za­tion col­lab­o­rat­ing with social change activists in 40 dif­fer­ent countries.