David Goodman

David Goodman is an award-winning independent journalist and bestselling author. A graduate of Harvard University, he has contributed frequently to The New York Times and written for Mother Jones, where his reporting was part of a package that received the National Magazine Award for General Excellence. He also hosts The Vermont Conversation, a public-affairs radio show and podcast, and has served as a school board chair and board member of the ACLU of Vermont.

Goodman is the coauthor, with his sister Amy Goodman, of four New York Times bestsellers, including Democracy Now! and Standing Up to the Madness. With Mark R. Warren, he coauthored Lift Us Up, Don’t Push Us Out!: Voices from the Front Lines of the Educational Justice Movement (2018), which documents organizing for educational justice.