Omar Tomas Wasow (born December 22, 1970)[1] is an assistant professor in UC Berkeley’s Department of Political Science.

[2][3] Bernard was a civil rights activist who participated in the Freedom Summer Project, which entailed registering Black voters in Mississippi.

[citation needed] Wasow is a graduate of Stuyvesant High School in New York City, where he was president of the student union.

[23][24][9] Wasow has written commentary on the George Floyd protests[25] and the 2021 United States Capitol attack.

In 2022, he left Pomona College to become an assistant professor in UC Berkeley’s Department of Political Science.