Ralph Nader Radio Hour Creators & Guests

Ralph Nader is a political activist, author, lecturer, and attorney. He is best known for his advocacy for consumer protection, environmentalism, and government reform. His first book, "Unsafe at Any Speed," was published in 1965 and established his reputation as a consumer advocate. Following the publication of Unsafe at Any Speed, Nader led a group of volunteer law students in an investigation of the Federal Trade Commission, which led to the overhaul and reform of the FTC. Nader established a number of advocacy and watchdog groups including the Public Interest Research Group, the Center for Auto Safety, and Public Citizen.Nader ran for President of the United States as an independent in 2000, 2004, and 2008.Nader is the author or co-author of more than 40 books. He was the subject of a documentary film, "An Unreasonable Man," which was released in 2006.Nader was educated at Princeton and Harvard.

Jamie Raskin is a lawyer and politician.

Dr. Ruth Wilson Gilmore is a prison scholar and abolitionist activist. She is the Director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics and professor of geography in Earth and Environmental Sciences at The City University of New York.Gilmore has been credited with inventing carceral geography, the “study of the interrelationships across space, institutions and political economy that shape and define modern incarceration”. She received the 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Association of Geographers.Gilmore's first book, "Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California," was published in 2007.Gilmore received her B.A. in Drama from Yale University and her Ph.D. in Economic Geography and Social Theory from Rutgers University.

Ronald Keeva Unz is an American technology entrepreneur, political activist, writer, and publisher. A former businessman, Unz became a multi-millionaire in Silicon Valley before entering politics.

Mehrsa Baradaran is a law professor specializing in banking law at the University of California.

Chomsky is most prolific political thinker of our time as well as the father of modern linguistics. He’s written striking critiques of US foreign policy, analyzed the way US media manufactures consent, and numerous other topics.

Christine Emba is a journalist, currently working as an opinion columnist and editor at the Washington Post.Previously, Emba was a Fellow in Criticism at The New Criterion, and prior to that she was a Deputy Editor in The Economist's Intelligence Unit, where she focused on technology and innovation.Emba received her B.A. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.Emba was raised in Virginia.

Steven Markoff is an entrepreneur, film producer, author, and educator.

Forrest Pritchard is a New York Times bestselling author and seventh-generation sustainable farmer.