George Lakey

George Lakey is an activist sociologist and author who recently retired as professor at Swarthmore College. He is the author of "Viking Economics: How the Scandinavians Got It Right and How We Can, Too"(Melville House, NY & London) and "Toward a Living Revolution: A Five-Stage Framework for Creating Radical Social Change." He has led over 1500 social change workshops on five continents and led projects on local, national and international levels. His first time arrested was in the civil rights movement; recently he went to jail in the successful campaign to stop the nation's seventh-largest bank from financing mountaintop removal coal mining.