Ben Manski
| Benjamin Robert Manski | |
|---|---|
| Born |
July 16, 1974 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
| Occupation | Sociologist, Lawyer, organizer, speaker |
| Spouse(s) | Sarah Grace Manski |
Ben Manski (born July 16, 1974) is an American sociologist, lawyer, and democracy advocate. He is the founder of the Liberty Tree Foundation for the Democratic Revolution, and co-founder of Move to Amend, Wisconsin Wave, the 180/Movement for Democracy and Education, and United for Peace and Justice. In 2011, he served as chair of the first biennial "Democracy Convention."
Manski was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on July 16, 1974, to economist Charles Manski and educator Kate Manski. When he was three years old, his family moved to Jerusalem, Israel, where he and his sister spent their early childhood years. In 1982, his parents returned to the United States, moving to Madison, Wisconsin.
Manski was influenced by the lifelong civil rights activism of his maternal grandmother and by the participation of his father’s family in the Jewish resistance movements of the 1930s and 1940s.
Manski received a law degree from the University of Wisconsin–Madison Law School in 2005, a B.A. in sociology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1999, an M.A. in sociology from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2016, and is currently seeking a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
In the summer of 2011, Manski was invited to Suruga, Japan, in place of his recently deceased grandfather, Samuil Manski, for a celebration of the life of Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat stationed in Lithuania responsible for saving thousands of Jewish refugees from Nazi cruelty through the granting of visas allowing for their escape. Manski's grandfather was one of the refugees saved by the grace of Sugihara and later helped to raise awareness of Sugihara's deeds. Manski admits that at the time, his grandfather may have not had "much awareness of who this man was who issued these visas. He was simply grateful."
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