Jimmy Fleming

Jimmy Fleming recently retired from a forty-year career in college publishing and higher education technology. He has lived in Brooklyn, NY, for most of that time, but was born, raised, and educated in the deep South, earning a literature degree from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He has family roots in south Georgia that go back generations. He continues to consider what that legacy means.

Jimmy moved to New York in 1982 to become a writer or an editor. He worked at a literary agency and as a business reporter before landing a job with a college textbook publisher. Over thirty years, he was their composition specialist. He traveled the country to work college faculty who teach writing, do research on writing, and run writing programs. His most recent work in publishing and educational technology was with scholars on developing anti-racist teaching and assessment practices. He is married to a third-grade teacher, Maryanne, and has two adult children, one a high-school English teacher in California, the other a social worker in New York City.

He is neither an historian nor a scholar but spends much time now researching and writing. He is co-founder of Paying Reparations Now, https://payingreparationsnow.com.

Contact: fleming.jimmy@gmail.com