Naomi Klein (2004-2005)

Naomi Klein is an award-winning author, a senior correspondent at The Intercept, and the inaugural Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture and Feminist Studies at Rutgers University. She is a syndicated columnist and the author of books including The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (2007) and No Is Not Enough: Resisting the New Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need (2017). The Shock Doctrine has been translated into more than 25 languages worldwide. It won the Warwick Prize for Writing. It was also adapted into a feature length documentary by award-winning director Michael Winterbottom that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2010. Klein has been ranked as one of the world’s top 100 public intellectuals in Prospect magazine, as one of the 100 People Who Are Changing America in Rolling Stone and was named as one of Ms. Magazine’s Women of the Year. Klein is also one of the authors of Canada’s Leap Manifesto a blueprint for a rapid and justice-based transition off fossil fuels endorsed by over 200 organizations, tens of thousands of individuals, which inspired similar climate justice initiatives around the world. She is now an advisory board chair for The Leap, a climate justice organization founded in response to the manifesto.