Richard D. Kahlenberg

About the Author

Richard D. Kahlenberg is director of the American Identity Project at the Progressive Policy Institute and teaches at George Washington University. Known as “the nation’s chief proponent of class-based affirmative action in higher education admissions,” his work has been published in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the New Republic, and the Atlantic. He is the author or editor of 18 books, most recently Excluded: How Snob Zoning, NIMBYism, and Class Bias Build the Walls We Don’t See.