Chesa Boudin

Chesa Jackson Boudin (b. 1980) is the son of American left-wing radicals and Weather Underground members Kathy Boudin and David Gilbert. His parents were incarcerated when Chesa was a fourteen months old, leaving him to be raised by Weather Underground members Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers (who had then emerged from hiding). Dohrn and Ayers later adopted Boudin, but he retained a relationship with his birth mother and father.

Boudin attended Yale University for his undergraduate years and attended Oxford as a Rhodes scholar for graduate school. He speaks and writes regularly on the topic of children with incarcerated parents.

Links

An article by Chesa Boudin on Salon.com and another on The Nation's website.

An interview on Democracy Now with Chesa Boudin the day after his mother's successful parole hearing.