Charles Barber

Charles Barber is the award-winning author of Citizen Outlaw: One Man's Journey from Gang Leader to Peacekeeper, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry is Medicating a Nation, and Songs from the Black Chair: A Memoir of Mental Interiors. Citizen Outlaw was published in 2019 and was featured on The Today Show, The New York Times, and C-SPAN's Book TV.

Charlie is a Writer in Residence at Wesleyan University, a Lecturer in Psychiatry at Yale, and Director of The Connection Institute, a criminal justice research institute. Before becoming an author he worked for many years in shelters for the homeless in New York City.