Jackson Katz

Since 1990, Katz has lectured at over 1200 colleges, universities, public and private high schools, professional conferences and military installations in 47 states, five Canadian provinces and many other countries. He has conducted workshops, seminars, and trainings in the U.S. and Canada, as well as throughout Europe, and in Australia and Japan. He has appeared on a number of television programs including "Good Morning America," "The Oprah Winfrey Show" and "ABC News 20/20."

Katz also consults with educational institutions, non-profits, municipal, state and federal governments and corporations ranging from the World Health Organization to The Liz Claiborne Company about strategies to promote gender equality and prevent gender violence, gay-bashing and other forms of bullying behavior in schools, the workplace and in the larger society. Read Less

The reason people are talking about them now is that a black man and a (white) woman are serious contenders for a major party nomination. Their success is making visible what historically has been hidden in plain sight.”

“Campaigns for the U.S. presidency in the era of mass media,” he wrote, “always turn on the personality and style of candidates, their skills at televisual performance, their race and gender, and how all of these interact with questions of national identity at a given historical moment. The biggest difference this time is that the Democratic nominee will not embody and hence reinforce the dominant position of white masculinity in the race/gender system.”

Katz further maintained that, “Presidential contests until now have been contests between men. Men were the gender that mattered. No matter how qualified by intelligence, leadership ability or experience, women were not seriously considered for the top job in government, and everyone knew it. Their gender prevented people from seeing them as ‘presidential.’ If there is one thing that truly represents ‘change’ in this historic election season it is the change in what it means to appear ‘presidential.’ In the past, whether a candidate was a Republican or Democrat, conservative, centrist or liberal, their race and gender were predetermined. They were inevitably – and invariably – white and a man.” Read Less