Eric Mann, Director of the Strategy Center, a 45-year veteran in anti-war, labor, and environmental organizing (working extensively with Congress of Racial Equality, Students for a Democratic Society, and the United Auto Workers), graduate of Cornell University, author of six books and two films on social movements and organizing theory, including his most recent book, Katrina’s Legacy: White Racism and Black Reconstruction in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. Eric was lead organizer of the 10 year campaign to Keep GM Van Nuys [auto plant] Open and woked on auto assembly lines for 8 years. In 2001 he was a delegate to the U.N. World Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa where he participated in the protests against the U.S. government’s walk out. He returned to South Africa in 2002 as part of a Strategy Center delegation to the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg. He is co-host of Voices from the Frontlines radio show.