Tony Platt is a Distinguished Affiliated Scholar at the Center for the Study of Law and Society at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of twelve books on race, inequality, and social justice in American history, including The Scandal of Cal: Land Grabs, White Supremacy, and Miseducation at UC Berkeley, Grave Matters: The Controversy over Excavating California's Buried Indigenous Past and Beyond These Walls: Rethinking Crime and Punishment in the United States. Platt has taught at the University of Chicago, UC Berkeley, San Jose State University, and Sacramento State University. He has written for the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, History News Network, Monthly Review, and the Guardian, and his commentaries have aired on NPR. Platt lives in Berkeley and Big Lagoon, California.