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Claim your profileI am a senior news producer at "Last Week Tonight with John Oliver," a comedy news show on HBO. I am the co-author of two books: Chew On This, with Eric Schlosser, a book for young readers on the fast-food industry, and The Good Food Revolution, with Will Allen, a 2013 NAACP Image Awards nominee in the category of biography. My writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, NewYorker.com and The Economist. Before "Last Week Tonight," I worked on the research staffs of the New York Times and The New Yorker, and as an instructor at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. Interests: Investigative journalism, social justice, civil rights, inequality, criminal justice reform, food and agriculture, writing, long-distance running, reading, sleeping, music, nature, New York City, friends, nice people. Contact: charles.wilson (at) aya.yale.edu






Master Of Arts, English, English Literature at Yale UniversityGraduated: 1998
Bachelor Of Arts, English, History at University Of VirginiaGraduated: 1996