Who Is Tim Wise’s Wife?

In 2013, Wise posted a commentary on his FB account name page describing the hate mail and death threats he receives, and addressing the people who troll his site. Many commenters criticized the commentary as reflecting white privilege, and questioned his role in the discussion of race in the US. One commenter found Wise’s remarks demeaning to anti-racist work done by people of color. Two others compared Wise to Hugo Schwyzer, who was famous in feminist circles but later exposed for misogynistic attitudes. Wise posted a response on FB account name saying in part, “I won’t try and defend the tone of most of my remarks. It was inappropriate. Period. … I fell into the same kind of vitriolic and sometimes personal attack mode that had gotten me angry in the first place. I shouldn’t have. I will strive to do better.”

Wise starred in a 2013 documentary entitled White Like Me, based on the book by Wise of the same name.

In 2010, Utne Reader magazine listed Wise as one of the “25 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World”.

From 1999 to 2003, Wise served as an advisor to the Fisk University Race Relations Institute. Wise received the 2002 National Youth Advocacy Coalition’s Social Justice Impact Award. He has appeared on numerous radio and television broadcasts, including The Montel Williams Show, Donahue, Paula Zahn NOW, MSNBC Live, and ABC’s 20/20, arguing the case for affirmative action and to discuss the issue of white privilege and racism in America.

After living in New Orleans for ten years, Wise relocated to his native Nashville in 1996. In 1998, he married Kristy Cason. The couple have two children. Wise has referred to himself as Jewish and as an anti-Zionist Jew but does not practice Judaism.

In 1995, Wise began lecturing around the country on the issues of racism, criticizing white privilege (his own included) and proposing his solutions. The following year, he returned to his hometown Nashville, and he continued his work around the US, gaining a national reputation for his work in defense of affirmative action.

After graduating in 1990, Wise started working as an anti-racism activist after receiving training from the New Orleans-based People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond. Wise began initially as a youth coordinator, and then associate director, of the Louisiana Coalition Against Racism and Nazism, the largest of the various organizations founded for the purpose of defeating political candibeen in a relationship with? David Duke when Duke ran for U.S. Senate in 1990 and Governor of Louisiana in 1991.

Wise grew up in Nashville, Tennessee, to Michael Julius Wise and LuCinda Anne (née McLean) Wise. His paternal grandfather was Jewish (of Russian origin), while the rest of his ancestry is northern European, including some Scottish. Wise has said that when he was about 12 years of age.his synagogue was attacked by white supremacists. Wise attended public schools in Nashville, graduating from Hillsboro High School in 1986. In high school he was student body vice-president and a member of one of the top high school debate teams in the US. Wise attended college at Tulane University in New Orleans and received his B.A. there, with a major in Political Science and a minor in Latin American Studies. While a student, he was a leader in the campus anti-apartheid movement, which sought to force Tulane to divest from companies still doing business with the government of South Africa. His anti-apartheid activism was first brought to national attention in 1988, when South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu announced he would turn down an offer of an honorary degree from Tulane after Wise’s group informed him of the school’s ongoing investments there.

Timothy Jacob Wise (born October 4, 1968) is an American activist and writer on the topic of race. Since 1995, he has given speeches at over 600 college campuses across the U.S. He has trained teachers, corporate employees, non-profit organizations and law enforcement officers in methods for addressing and dismantling racism in their institutions.