Derek Cressman
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Derek Cressman

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Derek Cressman is an award-winning author of fiction and non-fiction based in Sacramento, California. He is a graduate of the Stanford Online Certificate in Novel Writing and has served as a teaching assistance at The Writers Hotel Mini MFA conference.

Cressman has testified before committees of the United States Senate, California State Assembly and Senate, and California Fair Political Practices Commission; served as an expert in federal litigation; and authored four books: Virtuality (2025), Reality(TM) 2048--Watching Big Mother (a 2019 finalist in the American Bookfest Fiction Awards and 2020 Grand Prize Short List awardee for the Eric Hoffer Book Awards) When Money Talks--The High Price of "Free" Speech and the Selling of Democracy (which received an honorable mention in the 2016 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards for political science) and The Recall's Broken Promise--How Big Money Still Runs California Politics. His columns have appeared in Alternet, The Christian Science Monitor, The Hill, Huffington Post, Orange County Register, Sacramento Bee, San Jose Mercury News, St. Louis Post Dispatch, US News and World Report, and Washington Monthly.

When he’s not working to improve our democracy, Derek enjoys spending time with his wife and two daughters. He credits his time running marathons and mountaineering with building his fortitude to tackle obstacles of social change. He is an avid woodworker and picks at the banjo when he needs a break. Derek grew up in Colorado Springs and graduated with honors from Williams College in 1990 with a degree in political science.
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