JEFF SMITH AVAILABLE FOR COMMENT ON Grand Jury decision in FERGUSON, MO

Prominent Political Expert and Comentator, Former Missouri State Senator

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Jeff Smith, a New School politics professor and former Missouri State Senator is available for interviews and commentary on the political, social, and economic implications of yesterday's grand jury decision not to press criminal charges against Police Officer Darren Wilson in the death of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.

Jeff Smith is Assistant Professor of Politics and Advocacy at The New School's Milano School of International Affairs, Management and Urban Policy. Smith served in the Missouri Senate from 2006-2009, representing inner-city St. Louis, where he co-founded a group of charter schools called the Confluence Academies. Just this week, he published the Kindle Single: Ferguson In Black and White.

Jeff has appeared on CBS, CNN, MSNBC, and Current, and has been profiled by NPR’s This American Life, Harper’s, The New Republic, Politico, The New Yorker, and other periodicals. He recently gave a TED talk on prison entrepreneurship, and has published op-ed pieces for CNN, The Atlantic, Inc., National Journal, Salon, Politico, New York Magazine, Buzzfeed, the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Washington Examiner, and St. Louis Post-Dispatch. His youth-powered grass-roots congressional campaign was chronicled in the film Can Mr. Smith Get to Washington Anymore?, which was short-listed for an Academy Award.

Professor Smith can be reached via email at Jeff Smith; or by contacting Kasia Broussalian, Associate Director of Communications for The New School, at [email protected] or 212-229-5667 x.3990.

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