Matthew Stevenson was born and raised in South Florida. He graduated from the New College of Florida, the state’s honors college, with degrees in mathematics and economics. He holds an MBA from Columbia Business School (how we met) and currently works as an investment analyst at T. Rowe Price.

I heard of him from his appearing on the On Being podcast. Krista Tippett’s opening words to their conversation:

I’d heard Derek Black, the former white power heir apparent, interviewed before about his past. But never about the friendships that unfolded over two years with other people in their 20s that changed him. David Duke was Derek’s godfather. Derek designed the kids’ page, when he was 11, for what is known as the first major internet hate site, which his father created and still leads. But after Derek’s ideology was outed in his first year at New College in Florida, one of the only Orthodox Jews on campus, Matthew Stevenson, invited him to Shabbat dinner. What happened next is a roadmap for navigating some of the hardest and most important territory of our time.