Ilana Redstone is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the founder of Diverse Perspectives Consulting and the president of The Mill Center for the Advancement of Critical Thinking. She is the co-author of “Unassailable Ideas: How Unwritten Rules and Social Media Shape Discourse in American Higher Education” and the creator of the “Beyond Bigots and Snowflakes” video series. She is also a Faculty Fellow at Heterodox Academy and a Visiting Fellow at the Mercatus Program for Pluralism and Civil Exchange. 

Originally from Amherst, Massachusetts, Redstone obtained her Ph.D. in demography and sociology from the University of Pennsylvania. She has been at the University of Illinois since 2005.