BIO
Nikhil Goyal is a sociologist and author of Live to See the Day: Coming of Age in American Poverty, (Metropolitan/Macmillan), which The New Yorker named A Best Book of 2023. His next book, a history of the American juvenile justice system, is forthcoming from Harvard University Press. He is also a policymaker who served as senior policy advisor on education and children for Chairman Senator Bernie Sanders on the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions and Committee on the Budget. He has appeared on CNN, Fox, and MSNBC, and written for The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Time, The Nation, and other publications. Goyal earned his B.A. at Goddard College and M.Phil and Ph.D at the University of Cambridge.
Bio
Nikhil Goyal is a sociologist and author of Live to See the Day: Coming of Age in American Poverty, (Metropolitan/Macmillan), which The New Yorker named A Best Book of 2023. His next book, a history of the American juvenile justice system, is forthcoming from Harvard University Press. He is also a policymaker who served as senior policy advisor on education and children for Chairman Senator Bernie Sanders on the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions and Committee on the Budget. He has appeared on CNN, Fox, and MSNBC, and written for The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Time, The Nation, and other publications. Goyal earned his B.A. at Goddard College and M.Phil and Ph.D at the University of Cambridge.