William Wimsatt (born 1972) is an American author and political activist. He is the founder of the League of Young Voters, co-founder of Generational Alliance, and the author of three books including Bomb the Suburbs, No More Prisons, and Please Don't Bomb The Suburbs.
Wimsatt directs two non-profit organizations, Gamechanger Labs, a new incubator of start-up projects, and Gamechanger Networks, which organizes networks of change-makers such as Vote Mob and Local Power Network. Wimsatt co-founded Rebuild the Dream (along with Natalie Foster and Van Jones), and served as its Partnerships and Political Director. Wimsatt founded the League of Young Voters (2003), TheBallot.org (2004), and co-founded the Generational Alliance (2005) and the Coffee Party (2010). As a philanthropic consultant, he coined the phrase "Cool Rich Kids" (1999) referring to young progressive philanthropists associated with the organization Resource Generation. He has consulted for dozens of organizations including Rock the Vote, MoveOn.org, and Green For All. He was a Fellow at the Movement Strategy Center and the New Organizing Institute, and ran the Ohio Youth Corps in 2008, a joint project of the Ohio Democratic Party and the Obama Campaign.[2][3][4][5]
Writing and editingEdit
Wimsatt's first book was Bomb the Suburbs (1994), a collection of essays celebrating urban life and critiquing the suburban mindset. The essay "We Use Words Like Mackadocious", appeared in The Source magazine (May 1993). Wimsatt released No More Prisons (1999), referencing urbanism and the prison-industrial complex, in conjunction with an underground hip-hop album on Raptivism Records. He also edited the books Another World is Possible (2001) and Future 500: Youth Organizing and Activism in the United States (2003), Wimsatt co-edited How To Get Stupid White Men Out of Office (2004), a collection of stories from youth organizers around the world who won or swung elections. In 2010 he published the book Please Don't Bomb The Suburbs.[6][7]
ReferencesEdit
^Kleinnfield, N. R. "Guarding the Borders Of the Hip-Hop Nation". New York Times.
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