Jim Carrier

Jim Carrier is an award-winning journalist, civil rights activist, and filmmaker. He has written ten books, produced documentaries on civil rights, been published in National Geographic and the New York Time s , and produced multimedia projects for the Southern Poverty Law Center. His reporting has been broadcast on NPR and PBS, and was included in Best American Science and Nature Writing. Volunteering at the Southern Poverty Law Center, he wrote Ten Ways to Fight Hate, a community guide...See more

Jim Carrier is an award-winning journalist, civil rights activist, and filmmaker. He has written ten books, produced documentaries on civil rights, been published in National Geographic and the New York Time s , and produced multimedia projects for the Southern Poverty Law Center. His reporting has been broadcast on NPR and PBS, and was included in Best American Science and Nature Writing. Volunteering at the Southern Poverty Law Center, he wrote Ten Ways to Fight Hate, a community guide distributed to one million officials and human rights activists. Carrier developed Tolerance.org, which won two Webbys for activist websites and produced the film Faces in the Water which shows every thirty minutes at the Civil Rights Memorial. He and his daughter, Amy, descend from Martha Carrier who was hanged as a witch in Salem, Massachusetts. His wife, Trish O'Kane, PhD, is a lecturer in environmental education at the University of Vermont. See less