Edgar Cahn
Creator - Time Dollars and Time Banks; President of the Time Dollar Institute
Author of No More Throwaway People and Time Dollars (co-author, Jonathan Rowe); Hunger U.S.A. and Our Brothers' Keeper, The Indian in White America .
Co-authored with late wife, Jean Camper Cahn, titled The War on Poverty: A Civilian Perspective. This article provided the blueprint for the National Legal Services program.
Co-founder: the National Legal Service Program; Co-Founder: Antioch School of Law, the first clinical law school in the United States.
Subsequently engaged in mobilizing the community to create the DC School of Law, now the University of the District of Columbia School of Law.
Special counsel and speechwriter for Attorney General Robert Kennedy under President John Kennedy; assigned by Kennedy to the Solicitor General's office for the government's amicus brief in civil rights sit-in cases.
Public interest career includes:
Special Assistant to the Director, Office of Economic Opportunity,
Founder, Citizens Advocate Center,
Special Counsel to Chairman, Navajo Nation
Visiting professor, University of Miami School of Law,
Fellow, Florida International University,
Distinguished Visitor, the London School of Economics,
Fellow, Center for the Study of Human Rights, Columbia University,
Distinguished Emeritus Professor, U.D.C. David A. Clarke School of Law.
Educational background includes a B.A. magna cum laude from Swarthmore College, an M.A. and PhD from Yale University, and a J.D. from Yale Law School.