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Drawing upon his personal experiences at Harvard and as a professor for 25 years at the City University of New York, Mandery offers a scathing critique of elite colleges for creating a route to admission that is available almost exclusively to the wealthy. Mandery argues that these colleges operate in tacit agreement with suburban communities, which draw affluent families who seek to avail their children of this pathway, and, together, create a de facto segregated education system that is a principal driver of skyrocketing income inequality in America.
About the Speaker
An Emmy and Peabody award winner, Evan Mandery is the author of eight books, including four novels. A leading expert on the death penalty, Evan is the author, most recently, of Poison Ivy: How Elite Colleges Divide Us. He has been a professor for 25 years at John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York. He lives in Montclair, New Jersey with his wife Valli Rajah, a sociologist and their three children.