Chris Stewart

An award-winning writer, speaker, and blogger, Chris Stewart is a relentless advocate for children and families. Based in outstate Minnesota, Chris is CEO of brightbeam, a nonprofit media group that runs campaigns to highlight policies and practices that support thriving kids. He was the founding Director of the African American Leadership Forum, was an elected member of the Minneapolis Board of Education, and founded and served as the CEO of Wayfinder Foundation. Above all, Chris is a serial parent, a Minecraft enthusiast, and an epic firestarter on Twitter where he has antagonized the best of them on the political left and right. You’ll often see Chris blogging at citizenstewart.com and “tweeting” under the name “Citizen Stewart.”

Posts By Chris Stewart

Educational Opportunity

Americans must recommit to an education opportunity agenda

For all our worries about the economy, the United States remains the wealthiest nation in the world. As a country, we can afford to give every young person the opportunity to learn, grow and succeed....

School Choice

The left challenges trickle-down choice policies

The left is wrong about so many things in education. But they are right to keep choice advocates honest about who benefits most from school choice programs. Jack Schneider and Jennifer Berkshire have...

School Choice

We Can’t Let Racists Co-opt School Choice

I’ve spent much of my adult life producing persuasive messages to convince you that school choice was a totally not racist force for social progress. I stand by most of it, with nuances. My argument...

America Has a Boy Problem. Public Schools Can Solve It.

Someone on TikTok recently said, "we don't have a gun problem in America. We have a man problem." As proof, she pointed out that guns are equally accessible to women and men in this country, but men...

anti-racism

I’ll Be the Bogeyman of the Far-Right if It Means Speaking Out on Racial Justice

If you know me, you know I can be provocative in the service of social justice. Since the 1990s, I have written about race, racism, white supremacy, and social justice with a straightforward,...

equity

This Year I Celebrate Uncomfortable History Month

Mary Turner was 21 years old and 8 months pregnant on May 18, 1918 when a white mob seized her, bound her feet, hanged her from a tree upside down, burned her clothes off her body, and cut her...

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