Tongo Eisen-Martin

[2][3] Tongo Eisen-Martin was born in 1980[citation needed] in San Francisco, California[4] to a revolutionary mother[5] Arlene Eisen.

[7] He has a younger brother named Biko,[6] and they both attended Meadows-Livingstone school in San Francisco as children.

[9][6] He earned a bachelor's and master's degree in African-American Studies,[10] both from Columbia University,[11][12] where he taught at the Institute for Research in African-American Studies,[4] creating the 2012 curriculum We Charge Genocide Again!

[2] He has also taught at detention centers, including San Quentin and Rikers Island.

[4] His 2020 title Blood on the Fog published by City Lights was named a Best Poetry Book of 2021 by Elisa Gabbert of the New York Times.