Adam is an award-winning journalist. He is currently a staff writer at The Atlantic covering national politics. He is the author of The State Must Provide, a narrative history of racial inequality higher education, published by Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins. He was previously a reporter at the Chronicle of Higher Education where he covered federal education policy and historically black colleges and universities. Prior to joining The Chronicle he worked at ProPublica, and has been a National Fellow at New America. He was named to the 2021 Forbes 30 Under 30 list and his writing has appeared in BBC, Bleacher Report, and EBONY Magazine.
Adam is currently working on his second book, Is This America?, a history of the South’s role in politics and how the region shapes us as a nation—but not always in the ways we assume it does, which will be published by Pantheon
Books
The State Must Provide: Why America’s College Have Always Been Unequal—And How to Set Them Right (Ecco, 2021)
2021 Best Books - NPR
2021 Best Books Tackling Inequality - Center for Public Integrity
25 of the Best Books to Come out of the South in 2021 - Reckon South
2021 Best Books on Business and Leadership - Bloomberg
Biblioracle’s 8 Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2021 - Chicago Tribune
Awards and Honors
2021 New America Fellow
2021 Forbes 30 Under 30
2018 News Media Alliance Rising Star Award