Matt Kennard. Grimsby (United Kingdom), 1982. British writer and journalist, has worked for The Financial Times in London, New York and Washington. He has also published in other prominent outlets such as The New York Times, New Statesman, The Guardian, and The Chicago Tribune. He graduated from the Columbia School of Journalism in New York. In 2006, while he was a student journalist, Kennard accused Leeds University professor Frank Ellis of racism and was interviewed on BBC Radio 4's Today program. During this period, he was writing for Leeds Student. He also ran a story in the University of California student newspaper, the Daily Bruin, about Harvard professor Alan Dershowitz's attempts to remove a Norman Finkelstein publication, Beyond Chutzpah, from the University of California Press. Kennard is also the author of the acclaimed book Irregular Army: How the US Military Recruited Neo-Nazis, Gang Members, and Criminals to Fight the War on Terror, published by Verso Books. Based on several years of journalistic investigation, Irregular Army includes extensive interviews with extremist veterans and leaders of various far-right hate groups, who speak openly of their enthusiasm that their followers have received military training for an upcoming domestic race war. Kennard is currently Deputy Director of the Center for Investigative Journalism in London.