Joel B. Pollak is the Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and hosts Breitbart News Sunday on SiriusXM Patriot 125. Born in South Africa and raised in the Chicago suburbs, he worked as a speechwriter for the Leader of the Opposition in the South African Parliament while completing a Master of Arts degree in Jewish Studies at the University of Cape Town.
Back in the United States, Joel graduated from Harvard Law School and went on to work as a Research Fellow at the Hudson Institute. Pollak is the author of several books, and a winner of the Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship as well as the Pali Strong Foundation Hero Award. He and his wife, Julia, have four children.