AARON GLANTZ
Pulitzer Finalist, Peabody & duPont Award-winning journalist
Fellow at the Center for the Advanced Study for the Behavioural Sciences at Stanford University
Author of several books, including Homewreckers
Aaron Glantz is a fellow at the Center for the Advanced Study for the Behavioural Sciences at Stanford University, where he is incubating a new initiative that builds resilience for investigative journalists, human rights advocates, and others dedicated to social change. A two-time Peabody Award-winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist, Glantz is known globally as a leader of investigative projects that drive impact. Projects he’s led have sparked new laws that curtailed the opioid epidemic, improved care for U.S. military veterans, and kept the FBI’s international war crimes office open. They have also prompted dozens of Congressional hearings and investigations by the FBI, DEA, and United Nations. His reporting has appeared in nearly every major media outlet, including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, NPR, NBC News, ABC News, Reveal and the PBS Newshour, where his investigations have received three national Emmy nominations.
A former war correspondent who has reported from a dozen countries, including Iraq, Glantz has been a fellow at the DART Center for Journalism and Trauma at Columbia University, a Rosalynn Carter Fellow for Mental Health Journalism at the Carter Center, a JSK Journalism Fellow at Stanford University, and a visiting professor at the University of California Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. He is author of four books, among them Homewreckers (Harper Collins, 2019), which probed hedge fund profiteering off the 2008 financial crisis. A sought-after speaker and teacher, Glantz is known for developing talent across all media platforms. As an executive-in-residence at the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education he mentors a new generation of journalists of color.
Speech topics
Leveraging Big Data in the Fight Against Climate Change
The solutions to climate change don't all lie in reducing our carbon footprint. We must also adapt to higher temperatures, more frequent droughts and other extreme weather events.
As senior editor for NPR's California Newsroom, two-time Peabody Award-winning journalist Aaron Glantz has partnered with America's leading universities -- including Harvard and Stanford -- leveraging big data to pin-point how and where mitigation dollars can be most effectively spent, pointing the way to solutions that ameliorate the worst impacts of climate change.
The result has been hundreds of millions of dollars in targeted wildfire mitigation spending, compensation to fire victims, and strategic improvements to the state's critical infrastructure. In this talk, Glantz shares what he's learned about the power of big data and the change it can help us make in the world.
Renewing the american Dream
We live in an era of economic paradox. The US economy has been growing for nearly a decade, yet millions of Americans feel left behind. The top 1/10 of one percent of Americans now hold more wealth than the bottom 90 percent, inequality that’s not been seen since the Gilded Age in the 1890s. In “Renewing the American Dream,” Aaron Glantz, a two-time Peabody Award winner and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, explains how the economy has been rigged against the middle class and shares bold ideas for how we can renew the promise of shared prosperity. Glantz, who is a senior investigative reporter at Reveal, draws on lessons from his groundbreaking book Homewreckers: How a Gang of Wall Street Kingpins, Hedge Fund Magnates, Crooked Banks and Vulture Capitalists Sucked Millions Out of Their Homes and Demolished the American Dream.
Journalism That Changes the World
Aaron Glantz produces journalism with impact. A two-time Peabody Award-winning senior reporter for Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, his work has sparked more than a dozen congressional hearings, the signing of new laws, and criminal probes by the DEA, FBI, Pentagon, and the Federal Trade Commission. Because of his reporting, 500,000 fewer veterans face long waits for benefits while 100,000 fewer veterans are prescribed dangerous opiates by the government. In this talk, Glantz explains how to cut through the noise of the daily news cycle to report and deliver journalism that truly changes the world.
Books
Homewreckers: How a Gang of Wall Street Kingpins, Hedge Fund Magnates, Crooked Banks, and Vulture Capitalists Suckered Millions Out of Their Homes and Demolished the American Dream
A shocking, heart-wrenching investigation into America’s housing crisis and the modern-day robber barons who are making a fortune off the backs of the disenfranchised working and middle class.
Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan: Eyewitness Accounts of the Occupations
Winter Soldier makes us feel the pain and despair endured by those who serve in a military stretched to the breaking point by stop-loss policies, multiple combat tours, and a war where the goals and the enemies keep shifting.
The War Comes Home: Washington's Battle against America's Veterans
The War Comes Home is the first book to systematically document the U.S. government's neglect of soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.
How America Lost Iraq
A reporter in Iraq shows how the U.S. squandered its early victories and goodwill among the Iraqi public and allowed the newly freed society to descend into violence and chaos.