PERSON: Coleman Hughes

The Conversations with Coleman Podcast

Writer, Commentator, Public Speaker, Podcaster

Coleman Cruz Hughes (born February 25, 1996) is an American writer and podcast host. He was a fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research and a fellow and contributing editor at their City Journal, and he is the host of the podcast Conversations with Coleman.

Hughes is of African-American and Puerto Rican descent, and grew up in Montclair, New Jersey. His mother died when he was 19.

Hughes graduated from Newark Academy high school and was selected as a United States Presidential Scholar in 2014. He subsequently attended the Juilliard School and studied jazz trombone but later dropped out, due to his mother’s death. After attending Columbia University, he graduated in 2020 with a B.A. in philosophy.

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