House of Hope presents best-selling author, influential voice in the media, and public policy advocate Heather McGhee. Heather designs and promotes solutions to inequality in America. Over her career in public policy, Heather has crafted legislation, testified before Congress, and helped shape presidential campaign platforms.

Her book The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together spent 10 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and was long listed for the National Book Award and Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction. The Chicago Tribune said, “Required reading to move the country forward….” A former NBC contributor, McGhee regularly appears on NBC’s Meet the Press and MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Deadline White House, and All In. Her acclaimed 2020 TED talk is entitled “Racism Has a Cost for Everyone.” McGhee’s conversation on a C-SPAN program in 2016 with a white man who asked for her help to overcome his racial prejudice went viral, receiving more than 10 million views and sparking wide media coverage. She holds a B.A. in American Studies from Yale University and a J.D. from the University of California at Berkeley School of Law. McGhee is the chair of the board of Color of Change, the nation’s largest online racial justice organization.

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