Steve Phillips

Steve Phillips is a national political leader, civil rights lawyer, and senior fellow at the Center for American Progress.

He is the author ofNew York Times and Washington Post bestseller Brown is the New White.

Active in political and social change for thirty years, in 1992 he became the youngest person ever elected to public office in San Francisco and went on to serve as president of the Board of Education, where he authored pathbreaking legislation making San Francisco the first school district in the country to incorporate books by writers of color into the required reading in the literature curriculum.