Shepard, Benjamin

Benjamin Shepard is an assistant professor of human service at New York School of Technology/City University of New York. He is the author or editor of six books including The Beach Beneath the Streets: Exclusion, Control, and Play in Public Space (with Gregory Smithsimon, 2011), From ACT UP to the WTO: Urban Protest and Community Building in the Era of Globalization (coedited with Ron Hayduck, 2002), and White Nights and Ascending Shadows: An Oral History of the San Francisco AIDS Epidemic (1997). He has done organizing work with ACT UP, SexPanic!, Reclaim the Streets New York, Times UP, CIRC...