Saladin Ambar

Saladin Ambar is Professor of Political Science and Senior Scholar at the Center on the American Governor at Rutgers University’s Eagleton Institute of Politics. He is the winner of the Association of American Publishers’ PROSE Best Book Award in Government and Politics for Stars and Shadows: The Politics of Interracial Friendship from Jefferson to Obama, and his Malcolm X at Oxford Union: Racial Politics in a Global Era is in development for a feature film. He is Co-Director of the Democracy Committee for New Jersey’s Reparations Council and was a contributor for the Lincoln Presidential Foundation’s docuseries on the Lyceum Address. He hosts the podcast “This Moment in Democracy” and has been a fact-checker and contributor for the Smithsonian Channel, CNN’s Race for the White House, and PBS’s MetroFocus. He is the father of teenaged triplets and lives in Philadelphia.