JEFF SMITH AVAILABLE FOR COMMENT ON FERGUSON, MO CLASHESProminent Political Expert and Comentator, Former Missouri State Senator |
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 the recent unrest 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. Trading Places, his Ph.D. thesis on U.S. partisan realignment from 1975-2004, was recently published as a book, and he is currently completing a book manuscript about the politics of prison reform. Jeff has appeared on CBS, CNN, MSNBC, and Current, and has been profiled by NPR’s This American Life, Harper’s, The New Republic, 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 Sam Biederman, Director of Communications for The New School, at [email protected] or 212-229-5667 x.3094. |
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