Joel B. Pollak

Joel Pollak is the Senior Editor-at-Large and In-house Counsel at Breitbart News. He also hosts Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot 125, Sunday evenings from 7 to 10 Eastern.

Pollak was born in South Africa and raised in the Chicago suburbs, where he attended Niles North High School. After graduating from Harvard College with high honors in Social Studies and Environmental Science and Public Policy, he was a Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholar in South Africa. He later served as speechwriter for the Leader of the Opposition in the South African Parliament, and completed a Master of Arts degree in Jewish Studies at the University of Cape Town.

Back home in the United States, Pollak graduated from Harvard Law School and went on to work as a Research Fellow at the Hudson Institute. He ran, unsuccessfully, for U.S. Congress in 2010, but befriended conservative media pioneer Andrew Breitbart along the way, later joining him in Los Angeles, where they worked side-by-side transforming a blog into a 24-hour news website that would go on to change American politics and is one of the top news sites in the U.S.

Pollak is the author of several books, including How Trump Won: The Inside Story of a Revolution, and The Agenda: What Trump Should Do in His First 100 Days. He is also a winner of the Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship and lives in Pacific Palisades, California, with his wife Julia and family.