• Director of the American Identity Project and Director of Housing Policy at the Progressive Policy Institute
• Professorial Lecturer at George Washington University's Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration
• Called "the intellectual father of the economic integration movement" in K–12 schooling
• Called "arguably the nation's chief proponent of class-based affirmative action in higher education admissions"
• Author or editor of 20 books
• Author of 'Excluded: How Snob Zoning, NIMBYism, and Class Bias Build the Walls We Don't See' (2023)
• Author of 'Class Matters: The Fight to Get Beyond Race Preferences, Reduce Inequality and Build Real Diversity at America's Colleges' (2025)

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