About Caleb Maupin

Caleb Maupin is a writer, speaker, journalist and political analyst. His main areas of focus include U.S. foreign and domestic policy, the history and theory of socialism and communism, anti-imperialism, anti-globalism and resistance movements, media narratives and opposing regime-change propaganda, promoting win-win development, and economic justice. He’s is the ideological leader and founder of the Center for Political Innovation (CPI), and you can book him for a speaking engagement here.

Born in rural Ohio and growing up among conservatives, some of his first political activities included walking the picket line with his mother when she went on strike with other librarians in Stark County. He also visited Ecuador amid the episode of malnutrition and displacement spawned by Neoliberal economics in the late 1990s.

In Cleveland, Ohio he was a well-known community activist, video recording acts of police brutality, opposing war, supporting prisoners and teaching classes. In 2010 he video recorded police officers assaulting two high school students participating in a walk out, and his video secured their acquittal in juvenile court.

Relocating to New York City in 2011, Caleb participated in the planning meetings and early general assemblies of Occupy Wall Street. He was arrested in Occupy protests, and was critical of the movement’s refusal to stand with Libya which was being bombed at the time. During the time of the protests Caleb became a media spokesperson for former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark’s International Action Center, representing Clark and giving analysis of the Syrian Civil War and the 2014 Euro-maiden Coup in Ukraine on international media.

In 2015 he participated in a humanitarian rescue mission with the Red Crescent Society attempting to bring humanitarian aid to Yemen. The ship sparked an international incident. During the journey he experienced a deep spiritual awakening that guided to a new phase of activism. Caleb calls him an “Innovationist” and has pioneered a new outlook guiding opposition to globalism/imperialism, rooted in a celebration of the creative potential of each human being.

He works as a journalist on international television, and his writings have been translated and published in Persian, Arabic, French, Spanish, Chinese, Russian, Korean, Japanese and Portuguese. He has been a featured speaker at conferences held in Tehran, Sochi, Quito, Caracas and Moscow.

In 2021, he founded CPI, which has hundreds of members and engages in educational work across the United States. To learn more about CPI, click here.