Michael Kaufman

Michael Kaufman is an educator and writer focused on engaging men and boys to promote gender equality and end violence against women. His work with the United Nations, numerous government and non-governmental organizations, and on university campuses has taken him to fifty countries. He is the co-founder of the White Ribbon Campaign, the largest effort in the world of men working to end violence against women, and the author/editor of six books on gender issues, democracy, and development studies, including Theorizing Masculinities and Cracking the Armor: Power, Pain and the Lives of Men. He is also the author of the award-winning novel The Possibility of Dreaming on a Night Without Stars. Married with two children, Kaufman lives in Toronto, Canada.

Michael Kimmel is a professor of sociology at SUNY at Stony Brook. He is the author of Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men, which was featured on The Today Show and Good Morning America, and in over one hundred radio show, newspaper, and blog reviews. His other books include Changing Men, Men’s Lives, Against the Tide: Profeminist Men in the United States, 1776-1990, The Politics of Manhood, Manhood: A Cultural History, The Gendered Society, and, most recently, Misframing Men. He also co-edited The Encyclopedia on Men and Masculinities and Handbook of Studies on Men and Masculinities. He is the founder and editor of Men and Masculinities, the field’s premier scholarly journal, and a book series on gender and sexuality at New York University Press; and he edited the Sage Series on men and masculinities. He lectures extensively in corporations and on campuses in the U.S. and abroad. He lives in Brooklyn, New York with his wife and co-author, Amy Aronson, and their 10-year-old son, Zachary.