Jamie Kalven

Jamie Kalven

Jamie Kalven is an author and journalist based in Chicago. He recently retired as executive director of the organization he founded, the Invisible Institute, a journalism production company on the South Side of Chicago. He is a long-time consultant to public housing resident councils throughout the South Side of Chicago and established a program of “grassroots public works” to create employment alternatives for gang members and ex-offenders at Stateway Gardens. He is the author of Working With Available Light: A Family’s World After Violence and the editor of A Worthy Tradition: Freedom of Speech in America by his father, Harry Kalven, Jr. Among the national awards he has received are the 2015 Gorge Polk Award for Local Reporting, the 2016 Ridenhour Courage Prize, and the 2017 Hillman Prize for Web Journalism for the “Code of Silence” series for The Intercept.