Paul Loeb

Founder The Campus Election Engagement Project

  • Seattle WA

Author and lecturer on civic engagement

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Biography

Paul Rogat Loeb has spent forty years researching and writing about citizen responsibility and empowerment—asking what makes some people choose lives of social commitment, while others abstain, and exploring how to find the hope to stay engaged despite all the frustrations and barriers. The Impossible Will Take a Little While: Perseverance and Hope in Troubled Times (Basic Books), was named the #3 political book of fall 2004 by the History Channel and American Book Association, won the Nautilus Award for best social change book, and was one of six books selected for the Sierra Club’s new common reading groups. The Impossible’s new edition was published May 2014. Soul of a Citizen: Living with Conviction in Challenging Times (St Martin’s Press) has over 150,000 copies in print with a wholly revised edition published in April 2010. Paul is also the author of Generation at the Crossroads: Apathy & Action on the American Campus, Nuclear Culture, and Hope in Hard Times. He’s written for the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Psychology Today, Utne Reader, Mother Jones, The Nation, Redbook, Huffington Post, the International Herald Tribune and the Christian Science Monitor, been interviewed on CNN, NPR, C-SPAN, NBC news, CBC, and the BBC, and lectured at 400 colleges throughout the country and numerous national and international conferences. He founded and runs the national nonpartisan Campus Election Engagement Project, which helped 500 colleges and universities in engage their students in the election in 2008, 750 in 2012, and is now engaging students in mid-term elections. See http://www.paulloeb.org or http://www.campuselect.org

Loeb has spoken at over 400 colleges and universities.

Industry Expertise

Public Policy
Writing and Editing
Education/Learning
Political Organization
Environmental Services
Non-Profit/Charitable

Areas of Expertise

Political Participation
Social Movements
Protest Movements
Climate Change
Citizen Activism
Community Involvement
Political Hope
Students
Youth Involvement
Democratic Participation

Accomplishments

Nautilus Award for Best Social Change Book

2004-01-01

Awarded for The Impossible Will Take a Little While

#3 Political Book of 2004

2004-01-01

Awarded for The Impossible will Take a Little While by the American Book Association and the History Channel

Nautilus Award for Best Social Change Book

2010-01-01

Awarded for the revised edition of Soul of a Citizen

Education

New School

BA

Social Research

1973

Affiliations

  • Huffington Post
  • Campus Election Engagement Project

Testimonials

Former Executive Director

http://www.wfp.org/

United Nations World Food Program

“When my daughter asked from college how to be an effective grassroots citizen, I gave her Paul's books.”

Founder

http://www.habitat.org/

Habitat for Humanity

"Paul Loeb brings hope for a better world in a time when we so urgently need it."

Event Appearances

Keynote

Teach for America Regional Conference  Los Angeles, CA

2003-04-01

Keynote

National 4-H Clubs Conference  Seattle, WA

2005-04-01

Keynote

American Bar Association Access to Justice Conference  Denver, CO

2007-04-01

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Sample Talks

Teaching For Engagement

How to teach social commitment to America’s future citizens.

Leadership and Responsibility

Ways student government members and leaders of campus organizations can support greater student involvement and awareness.

Community Service and Change

Ways participants in service projects can balance their desires to help in concrete, one-on-one ways, while addressing root social structures that cause problems like hunger, illiteracy, and homelessness.

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Style

Availability

  • Keynote

Fees

$4000 to $6000
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