Gray Brechin & Mason Williams

Teaches at Museum of the City of New York - Public

Gray Brechin, an award-winning writer and historical geographer whose book Imperial San Francisco: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin spent sixteen weeks on the San Francisco Chronicle’s bestseller list. He is the founder and Project Scholar of the Living New Deal.

Mason Williams, historian of 20th century American politics and economics. He is the author of City of Ambition: FDR, LaGuardia, and the Making of Modern New York (New York: Norton, 2013) and a professor of Leadership Studies at Williams College.

Sarah Seidman (moderator), Puffin Foundation Curator of Social Activism at the Museum of the City of New York.