Micah M. White

In January 2020, White attended the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The meeting is often attended by business and political leaders, whom White protested when he was a part of Occupy Wall Street.

Micah M. White is credited with being the co-creator, and the only American creator, of the original idea for the Occupy Wall Street protests. He is a former editor of Adbusters magazine, the anti-consumerism magazine that originally called for Occupy Wall Street. His book, The End Of Protest: A New Playbook For Revolution, was published by Knopf Canada in 2016. He is the founder of Activist Graduate School, a website offering video courses aimed at activists.

White is in favor of a transaction tax on international financial speculation, the reinstatement of the Glass–Steagall Act and revocation of corporate personhood. He is against advertisement and consumerism. He believes that "clicktivism", which denotes a form of internet-based activism and includes signing online petitions, is damaging to the possibility of political change.

In December 2011, the San Francisco Chronicle included White in a list of the "most fascinating people in the Bay Area 2011". In December 2014, Esquire Magazine named White one of the most influential people under 35 years of age. In 2018, White was awarded the Roddenberry Fellowship, Voqal Fellowship, and the National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship at Bard College. In 2019, he was the Activist-in-Residence at UCLA.

White "was born to a Caucasian mother and an African-American father". In middle school, he reportedly refused to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. He attended Grand Blanc Community High School in Grand Blanc, Michigan. There he started a controversial student atheists club. As part of his experience he published an Op-Ed piece "Atheists Under Siege" in the July 21, 1999 issue of the New York Times. He was also interviewed on Politically Incorrect and received the 1999 Ruth Jokinen Memorial Student Activist Award from the Freedom From Religion Foundation. He earned a B.A. at Swarthmore College and an M.A. and Ph.D. at the European Graduate School.