Joel Pollak is Senior Editor-at-large and in-house counsel at Breitbart News. Born in South Africa, he was 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 received a master of arts degree in Jewish studies at the University of Cape Town and is a graduate of Harvard Law School. He has worked as a research fellow at the Hudson Institute, and subsequently worked with Andrew Breitbart to transform a conservative blog into a 24-hour news website.