Bill Ayers

Bill Ayers is an academic, formerly distinguished professor of education and senior university scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), and founder of the Small Schools Workshop and the Center for Youth and Society. He has written extensively about social justice, democracy and education, and teaching. His books include "Teaching Toward Freedom," "A Kind and Just Parent: The Children of Juvenile Court," "Fugitive Days: Memoirs of an Anti-War Activist," and "Teaching the Personal and the Political: Essays on Hope and Justice." In 1969 he co-founded the Weather Underground to oppose U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.