Seth F. Wessler, a Research Associate with the Applied Research Center in New York, is a graduate of Hampshire College where he studied Social and Political Theory and wrote a thesis on the politics of race, fear and sovereignty in the United States.

Seth interned for ARC as an undergraduate and has conducted research on health access, child welfare and immigration policy.  He has published several news pieces in ColorLines Magazine.  Seth has been a student organizer and was a founding member of Hampshire Students for Justice in Palestine and CHAARGED, a campus racial justice group. He interned with Centro Presente, an immigrant rights organization in Cambridge, MA, where he initiated an oral history project and assisted in the legal aid department.  Seth taught photography courses in Holyoke, Massachusetts at a multilingual high school for young parents and worked in Palestine facilitating photography workshops for youth and producing a sound documentary.  He writes about race and the politics of exclusion with a particular interest in the political ethics of racial injustice and the liberal state.