Philip Schwalb has over 30 years' experience as an attorney, professor, legal advocate, and business pioneer. He has led startups, non-profits, sports and entertainment businesses, and complex legal matters. He has been an adjunct professor or lecturer at Columbia University, NYU, UCF, and Rollins College, and offered insight in interviews with ABC, NBC, and PBS affiliates, as well as FOX, CNN, and NPR nationally. He has also been featured in publications including the Chicago Tribune, Wall Street Journal, Forbes Magazine, and often the New York Times. From 2001 to 2008, Schwalb founded, financed, and developed the $100 million World Trade Center area rebuilding project he conceived of after 9/11. Blocks from the Statue of Liberty ferry and New York Stock Exchange, Schwalb built the nation's first ever Smithsonian-style museum dedicated to sports in society. He secured collaboration from New York City's mayor and state governor; leagues including the NBA, NFL, MLB, and NHL; 30 U.S. Sports Hall of Fame; and hundreds of Hall of Fame athletes from dozens of sports. Schwalb raised over $100 million (through the sale of bonds and private equity); oversaw all design and architecture; and managed government and media relations. On May 7, 2008, he led (with NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg, civil rights icon Billie Jean King, and NFL star Eli Manning) a nationally televised grand opening. The Sports Museum of America received rave reviews and was named Nickelodeon's best museum in NYC for children and teens before Wall Street's collapse and the subsequent recession forced its closing. Today, Schwalb fights for non-profits and the legal rights of the vulnerable. Through his organization "Bend the Arc" (from the MLK Jr. quote "the moral arc of the universe is long but bends toward justice"), he pursues political and social justice through writings, media, and the law.
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