Gail Leondar-Wright

Gail Leondar-Wright – Publicist

I specialize in national public radio publicity campaigns for books and authors that inspire and support progressive social change.

Overview

For the past 25 years, I have been introducing progressive authors to their potential audiences via radio interviews. My work supports movements for progressive social change and helps build public intellectuals. I help authors translate academic ideas into language that can enlighten and inspire mainstream and progressive radio audiences, and I create opportunities for authors to engage in meaningful dialogue with thoughtful hosts on public and commercial radio. Subject areas include: politics, social justice, anti-racism, environmental protection, human rights, criminal justice and other public policy topics, feminism, gay and lesbian concerns.

I've supported each of New York Times best selling author Larry Tye's seven books, arranging multiple interviews on nationally syndicated NPR shows, including several appearances on Fresh Air.

I've worked with McArthur genius award winning author Elizabeth Streb, and Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr. Bernard Lown, helping them reach large and varied audiences. Through my work on her first three books, I helped transgender activist and author Kate Bornstein build a national reputation, and along the way, played a role in sparking one of the most significant social movements of the 20th century.
Services
Non-Fiction
Biographies & Memoirs Earth, Space, & Environmental Sciences Economics History Humanities & Social Sciences LGBTQ Non-Fiction Music Political Science & Current Affairs Psychology
Fiction
Historical Fiction

Work experience

Self-employed

Apr, 1992 — Present

In 1992, I began introducing progressive authors to thoughtful, well-informed media people and their audiences across the country. Having promoted over 700 books, I continue to help authors in their efforts to gain meaningful attention for their books, and to participate in dialogue that makes for a more just and peaceful world. My clients include Dr. Helen Caldicott, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Kitty Dukakis, Larry Tye, Frances Moore Lappé , Gar Alperovitz, Col. Ann Wright, Kate Bornstein, Leslie Feinberg, and Laura Flanders.

Projects

Bobby Kennedy: The making of a liberal icon

I created and implemented an ambitious radio campaign for Larry Tye's Robert Kennedy biography.

Portfolio

Andy Lazris, MD, is a practicing primary care physician who experiences the effects of Medicare policy on a daily basis. As a result, he believes that the way we care for our elderly has taken a wrong turn and that Medicare is complicit in creating the very pr... read more
Before Americans got their news from television, they got it from LIFE, the weekly magazine that set the standard for photojournalism. In LIFE Story Gerald Moore―a writer and editor who worked at the magazine in the last glory years before TV made it obsolete―... read more
In The Highest Glass Ceiling, best-selling historian Ellen Fitzpatrick tells the story of three remarkable women who set their sights on the American presidency. Victoria Woodhull (1872), Margaret Chase Smith (1964), and Shirley Chisholm (1972) each challenged... read more
Integration Nation takes readers on a spirited and compelling cross-country journey, introducing us to the people challenging America’s xenophobic impulses by welcoming immigrants and collaborating with the foreign-born as they become integral members of their... read more
As inequality grabs headlines, steals the show in presidential debates, and drives deep divides between the haves and have nots in America, class war brews. On one side, the wealthy wield power and advantage, wittingly or not, to keep the system operating in t... read more
What are the features of the school environment that make students' of color incorporation greater at some schools than at others? Prudence L. Carter seeks to answer this basic but bedeviling question through a rich comparative analysis of the organizational a... read more
From Glee to gay marriage, from lesbian senators to out gay Marines, we have undoubtedly experienced a seismic shift in attitudes about gays in American politics and culture. Our reigning national story is that a new era of rainbow acceptance is at hand. But d... read more
Celebrated scholar Carla Kaplan’s cultural biography, Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance, focuses on white women, collectively called “Miss Anne,” who became Harlem Renaissance insiders. The 1920s in New York City was a time of freed... read more
When Sheila Jordan dropped a nickel in the juke box of a Detroit diner in the 1940s and heard “Now’s The Time” by Charlie Parker, she was instantly hooked—and so began a seventy-year jazz journey. In 1962, she emerged as the first jazz singer to record on the ... read more
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Satchel comes an in-depth, vibrant, and measured biography about the most complex and controversial member of the Kennedy family.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST History remembers Rob... read more
We all know that orange is the new black and mass incarceration is the new Jim Crow, but how much do we actually know about the structure, goals, and impact of our criminal justice system? Understanding Mass Incarceration offers the first comprehensive overvie... read more
“My world seems upside down. I have grown up but I feel like I’m moving backward. And I can’t do anything about it.” –Esperanza Over two million of the nation’s eleven million undocumented immigrants have lived in the United States since childhood. Due to a br... read more
It is a shame of America.In the spring of 1942, the United States rounded up 120,000 residents of Japanese ancestry living along the West Coast and sent them to interment camps for the duration of World War II. Many abandoned their land. Many gave up their per... read more
A longtime movement insider's powerful account of the origins of today's protest movements and what they can achieve now As Americans take to the streets in record numbers to resist the presidency of Donald Trump, L.A. Kauffman’s timely, trenchant history of p... read more

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