Steve Phillips is the host of “Democracy in Color with Steve Phillips,” a color-conscious podcast on politics. He is also the founder of Democracy in Color, a political organization dedicated to race, politics, and the multicultural progressive New American Majority. He is the author of the New York Times and Washington Post bestselling Brown Is the New White: How the Demographic Revolution Has Created a New American Majority.

Phillips is a national political leader, civil rights lawyer, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, and a regular contributor to The Nation and The New York Times. He is a graduate of Stanford University and Hastings College of the Law.