Previously, he taught at the California State University, San Bernardino, where he directed the Learning Research Institute.
Born in Great Neck, New York, he attended the University of Southern California as an undergraduate, where he worked with both John L. Horn and novelist T. Coraghessan Boyle.
His musical, Discovering Magenta, written with composer Michael Bitterman, had its premiere in 2015 in New York City as part of the Thespis Theatre Festival.
[11] The musical is the story of a mental health worker trying to help a patient who has suffered past [12] His short play "My Very Elegant Mother" made its NYC debut in 2008 at the Riant Theatre [13] and was adapted into an audiobook.
Kaufman contributes an essay with Paul Joseph Barnett who explains that "pseudoscientific beliefs have been flourishing because of the idea that '"everybody has the right not to be offended'".