Paul Rogat Loeb is
the founder of guides.vote and before
that of Campus Election Engagement Project. He has spent 45 years researching
and writing about citizen responsibility and empowerment—asking what makes some
people choose lives of social commitment, while others abstain, and exploring
how to find the hope to stay engaged despite all the frustrations and barriers.
Soul of a Citizen: Living with Conviction
in Challenging Times (St Martin’s Press) has 175,000 copies in print between two editions. The Impossible Will Take a Little While: Perseverance
and Hope in Troubled Times (Basic Books), wasnamed the #3 political book of fall 2004 by the
History Channel and American Book Association, won the Nautilus
Award for best social change book, and
has 125,000 in print. Paul is also the author of Generation
at the Crossroads: Apathy & Action on the American Campus, Nuclear
Culture, and Hope in Hard Times.  He’s written for the New York Times, Washington
Post, USA Today, Los Angeles
Times, Boston Globe, Psychology Today, AARP Bulletin, The
Nation, Redbook, Huffington Post, the International Herald Tribune and the Christian Science Monitor, been interviewed on CNN, NPR, C-SPAN,
NBC news, CBC, Fox News, and the BBC, and lectured at 450 colleges throughout
the country and numerous national and international conferences.  
 
Campus Election
Engagement Project worked with 600 colleges and universities before Paul left
after the 2020, following which he founded the guides.vote
project-- creating nonpartisan candidate guides to help voters make educated
choices.  Guides.vote is on track to
distribute over 4 million guides in the 2024 election and partners say our
ability to create side-by-side contrasts of  candidate stands can play a key role in
getting reluctant voters to the polls in 2024. See guides.vote and paulloeb.org

Alice Walker writes, "The
voices Loeb finds demonstrate that courage can be another name for love."
"Soul of a Citizen helps us find
the faith we need to act on our deepest beliefs—and keep on," says Marian
Wright Edelman.  Habitat for Humanity founder Millard Fuller concluded “Paul
Loeb brings hope for a better world in a time when we so urgently need it.” The
late Susan Sontag called Loeb “A national treasure.” And Bill Moyers writes, of
The Impossible Will Take a Little While, “This
book can even make one hopeful about the future despite so many signs to the
contrary