Stephen Preskill

Stephen Preskill was born in Highland Park, Illinois in 1950. He has been in education for close to five decades, starting out as a middle school social studies teacher, then becoming a special education coordinator, and eventually earning a doctorate in the history of American education in 1984 at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. For three decades, he served as a professor of education and leadership. He became a Regents Professor at the University of New Mexico in 2004 and was named Distinguished Professor of Civic Engagement at Wagner College in 2012. In 2018, he earned an MFA in Nonfiction Writing from Columbia University's School of the Arts. He is the co-author or author of five books, including Learning as a Way of Leading: Lessons from the Struggle for Social Justice, and Education in Black and White: Myles Horton and the Highlander Center's Vision for Social Justice, to be published on May 11, 2021.