On Activism, Friendships, and Fighting

“Benjamin Shepard, who links personal narrative and movement analysis with uncommon felicity, uses his own experiences to significantly deepen his insights.” —Geoffrey Kurtz, Logos

Benjamin H. Shepard, PhD, LMSW, works as Professor of Human Services at City Tech/CUNY. He has organized protests with ACT UP, SexPanic!, Reclaim the Streets, the Clandestine Rebel Clown Army, Absurd Response, CitiWide Harm Reduction, Housing Works, More Gardens Coalition, Time’s UP!, Right of Way, Occupy Wall Street, Occupy the Pipeline, Resist AIM, Public Space Party, and the Professional Staff Congress of the City University of New York, where he is a chapter chair at New York City College of Technology.

Shepard has written and edited ten books, including recent titles Rebel Friendships: “Outsider” Networks and Social Movements (Sage, 2015); Sustainable Urbanism (Roman and Littlefield, 2017); Brooklyn Tides with Mark Noonan (Transcript, 2017); and Narrating Perspectives on Childhood and Adolescence (Columbia University Press, 2018).