Keith Boykin

Keith Boykin, a Lambda Literary Award-winning author of four books, is a CNN political commentator, bestselling author, and a former White House aide to President Bill Clinton. He teaches at the Institute for Research in African-Aerican Studies at Columbia University in New York and previously taught at American University in Washington, DC. He is a co-founder and first board president of the National Black Justice Coalition. He was a co-host of the BET Networks talk show "My Two Cents," starred on the Showtime reality television series American Candidate, was an associate producer of the film Dirty Laundry, and he has appeared on many other televison shows. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard Law School.