Steven Shafarman

Universal Basic Income Expert

Steven Shafarman has been talking and writing about basic income since the mid 1980s, and published his first book about it in 1998 while enrolled in a doctoral program in human development. He’s been active with the U.S. Basic Income Guarantee Network, usbig.net, since 2000, soon after it was founded. A life member of the Basic Income Earth Network, basicincome.org, he presented talks at their meetings in Geneva in 2002, Dublin in 2008, and Montreal in 2014. He lives in Washington, D.C.