Kevin McGruder is Associate Professor of History at Antioch College. His interest in community formation led to a career in community development focusing on affordable housing in Cleveland, Newark, N.J. and Harlem. Now as an academic, his research interests include African American institutions, urban history focusing on racial residential patterns, and LGBTQ history. He has a B.A. in Economics from Harvard University, an M.B.A. in Real Estate Finance from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. in U.S. History from the City University of New York. He is author of Race and Real Estate: Conflict and Cooperation in Harlem, 1890-1920 (2015) and Philip Payton: The Father of Black Harlem (2021), and editor of Home at Last: The Collected Writings of AIDS Journalist LeRoy Whitfield (2022).