Tim Wise

Tim wise is a scholar and philosopher who has traveled all over the world and has been to all fifty states and over one thousand college and high school campuses spending the last twenty years trying to diminish racism. Despite traveling all over the world, his journey started out just across from Loyola. Graduating from Tulane in 1990, he received antiracism training from the People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond, in New Orleans. Even in his early college days his work traces back to a college activist in the 1980’s fighting for "divestment from (and economic sanctions against) apartheid South Africa." After graduating college he jumped into social justice efforts full-time, as a Youth Coordinator and Associate Director of the Louisiana Coalition against Racism and Nazism: one of the largest groups organized in the early 1990s to defeat the political candidacies of white supremacist and former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. From there his career only continued to evolve and he became a popular public figure in the area of racism leading him to take on new stands and featured in several documentaries including "White Like Me: Race, Racism and White Privilege in America." Today his work addresses all different types of racism standing out from the rest as he brings about unique perspectives.