Richard Kahlenberg

Richard Kahlenberg is a nonresident scholar at Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy. An education and housing policy consultant, he is a senior fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute and professorial lecturer at George Washington University Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration. Kahlenberg is a proponent of economic integration in K–12 schools and class-based affirmative action in higher education admissions. The author or editor of 18 books, he most recently wrote Excluded: How Snob Zoning, NIMBYism, and Class Bias Build the Walls We Don’t See and has edited eleven volumes on subjects involving higher education and K–12 schooling. He serves on the advisory boards of the Pell Institute and Albert Shanker Institute and received the Kaplin Award for Excellence in Higher Education Law and Policy Scholarship.