Welcome to my webpage.

My name is Sasha Abramsky. I was born in England in 1972, grew up in London, and studied politics, philosophy, and economics at Balliol College, Oxford. I got my B.A. in 1993 and moved to New York to study journalism at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. I lived in the Big Apple for ten years, before moving to California in 2003. I currently live in Sacramento with my wife and two kids.

I teach writing one day a week at the U.C. Davis writing program, am a fellow at the New York City-based Demos think tank, and spend most of the rest of my work-time reporting and writing magazine articles and books.

Much of work over the past decade has centered on America’s criminal justice system. I also write on political goings-on and cultural trends. Over the years I’ve also written many travel essays, book reviews, and opinion pieces. More recently, I have focused more on national political trends. Many of my articles are posted on this website.

My most recent book, Inside Obama’s Brain, has just been published by Penguin’s Portfolio imprint (December, 2009).

If you want to contact me, my email is: Sabramsky@sbcglobal.net. I am available for speaking engagements.

An in-depth discussion of Inside Obama’s Brain at UC Davis can be seen here.

In this video, I discuss Inside Obama’s Brain:

 And here is a video of me speaking about hunger in America on GRITtv: