Elijah Anderson is William K. Lanman, Jr. Professor of Sociology at Yale University.
He is one of the nation’s most influential scholars in the field of urban inequality, a respected and accomplished sociologist of the black urban community. His most recent book is Against the Wall: Poor, Young, Black and Male.

Joel Kotkin is Presidential Fellow in Urban Futures at Chapman University in Orange, California, and Senior Fellow with the Center for an Urban Future in New York City. An internationally recognized authority on global, economic, political, and social trends, he is the author of The City: A Global History.