Jeremy Adam Smith edits Greater Good magazine, published by the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley, which studies the psychology, sociology, and neuroscience of well-being and teaches skills that foster a thriving, resilient, and compassionate society. He's the author or co-editor of five books, including The Daddy Shift, Are We Born Racist?, and (most recently) The Gratitude Project. Jeremy’s coverage of racial and economic segregation in San Francisco schools has won numerous honors, including the Sigma Delta Chi award for investigative reporting, the PASS Award from the National Council on Crime and Delinquency, and many excellence in journalism awards from the Northern California Society of Professional Journalists and Education Writers Association. He is also a three-time winner of the John Swett Award from the California Teachers Association.

^^^^ That's the copy-and-paste bio you see around my byline. Post-Knight real talk, for those bothering to read the bios: I live in Oakland with my son Liko, 18, who just graduated from Berkeley High School and is currently holding two really interesting nonprofit jobs: he adapts bicycles for people with disabilities at an agency called BORP and he's just apprenticed as, of all things, a boatbuilder. His plan is to save up money and then travel around Asia in 2024. After that, he aims to go to college. I also live in our big craftsman house with my partner Michelle, a public librarian, and my stepkiddo Alex, who is 19. My OTHER partner, Adele (an emergency physician), lives 10 minutes away in another craftsman house. Yes, we are all polyamorous. It's entirely possible that you'll see Liko, Michelle, and Adele at different points during the reunion. The Knights of my year will remember Liko's mom, Shelly Doo. She developed an extremely rare neurodegenerative disease (think: Parkinsons + early onset dementia), and now lives with her family in Honolulu. I spend part of every month there to take care of her. I'm currently learning about tarot, to honor a card-throwing friend who died this past February. (Want a reading? Try me. I'm still really bad at it, though). And I've been trying my hand at archery. (Want to try me with an apple on your head? This, I really DO NOT recommend.) My fellow Knights will no doubt be cheered to hear that I still bike or walk everywhere (I will likely bring my bike on the train to Palo Alto), and that I still avoid getting into cars as much as possible. I've been gestating a new book about non-traditional, decolonial love since the start of the stupid pandemic, and perhaps one day I'll have the bandwidth to write the thing.