Joel Kotkin

Joel Kotkin is an Irvine senior fellow with the New
America Foundation, which is based in Washington, D.C. He
is the author of five books, including Tribes and
The New Geography, both published by Random House.
Kotkin is a frequent contributor to The Washington
Post, The Wall Street Journal, Inc.
magazine, The American Enterprise, and the Los
Aneles Times “Opinion” section. He also serves as a
senior fellow of the Newman Institute at Baruch College of
the City University of New York and lectures at the
Southern California Institute of Architecture. He lives in
Valley Village, Los Angeles, with his wife, Mandy, and two
daughters, Ariel and Hannah.