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Colin Woodard is a strategic thought leader, think tank project director, scholar of nationhood and nationalism, and New York Times-bestselling author of books on the American condition and struggle to create a liberal democracy. Manager of highly-collaborative public interest and messaging projects on two continents and Polk Award-winning investigative journalist and former foreign correspondent with field experience in failed states, conflict zones and diverse cultural environments. He is a sought-after speaker with extensive media experience. Woodard is the Director and Founder of the Nationhood Lab, an interdisciplinary research, writing, testing and dissemination project focused on counteracting the authoritarian threat to American democracy and the centrifugal forces threatening the federation’s stability. His work changed contours of debate on gun violence, life expectancy, health, and other public policy issues.

Colin has been awarded Fellowship in the Royal Geographical Society, was recognized as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting, received the George Polk Award in 2013 - the highest honors in US journalism - and has published 6 books. His articles have appeared in major publications including The New York Times, Washington Post, Politico, The Economist, Smithsonian, the Guardian, Daily Beast, among many others. Colin is also a frequent media guest who has appeared on PBS News Hour, CNN, NPR’s Weekend Edition, On Point, Here & Now, Tell Me More, and 1A, MSNBC’s Daily Rundown with Chuck Todd and Katy Tur Reports, BBC World Service’s News Hour, and many others. Talking head expert on Netflix, Smithsonian Channel, History Channel, Discovery Channel, TLC, and Vice Media documentaries. Quoted expert in articles in the Times, Post, New Yorker, AP and elsewhere. A skilled public speaker, providing keynote presentations at hundreds of conferences, meetings, universities, and official events around the world including the U.S. Senate, the Smithsonian and Chautauqua Institutions, the Boston Athenaeum, the National Academies, the Camden Conference, the German Marshall Fund’s Atlantic Dialogues in Marrakesh, the Milken Global Conference in Beverly Hills, the Asahi World Forum in Tokyo and the State of the Unions conference in Brussels; at AEI, the Council on Foundations, the Council of State Governments, the National Conference of State Legislators, the State Legislative Leaders Forum, the Q Ideas Festival and at dozens of universities and colleges around the world.