Shai Davidai

Considered one of the most outspoken academics against antisemitism on college campuses since October 7, 2023, Shai Davidai’s activism has drawn more than a quarter million followers online. Named one of The Jerusalem Post’s “50 Most Influential Jews of 2024,” Poets & Quants’ “Best 40 Under 40 MBA Professors of 2023,” and the Association of Psychological Science’s “2020 Rising Star,” Davidai has testified before Congress, organized rallies, appeared on prime-time television and leading podcasts, and spoken to thousands of people across dozens of Jewish communities in North America.

His podcast, Here I Am with Shai Davidai, reaches thousands each week and his work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, and many others. Davidai holds a PhD in Social Psychology from Cornell University and has taught at Princeton, The New School, and Columbia Business School. He lives in New York City with his wife, author and translator Yardenne Greenspan, and their two magnificent children.