ヘザー・マギー（Heather McGhee、1980年生まれ）は、アメリカの作家、公共政策研究者。イェール大学でアメリカ研究を学び、カリフォルニア大学バークレー校ロースクールで法務博士号を取得した。不平等や民主主義を研究するシンクタンク「デモス」では、2014年から2018年まで代表を務め、経済格差、金融制度、人種問題をめぐる政策提言に携わった。[Demos](https://www.demos.org/heather-c-mcghee)
著書『The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together』（未邦訳）では、人種差別を一部の人々だけが被る問題ではなく、公共サービスや賃金、教育、環境などを通じて社会全体に損失をもたらす仕組みとして分析している。人種統合を避けるために公共プールそのものを閉鎖した地域の歴史を象徴的な事例として取り上げ、「誰かの利益は自分の損失になる」というゼロサム思考を問い直した。人種を越えた協力がすべての人に利益をもたらす「連帯の配当」という考え方を提示し、格差の構造と、それを乗り越えるための道筋を具体的に描いている。[National Book Foundation](https://www.nationalbook.org/people/heather-mcghee/)
Heather McGhee (born 1980) is an American author and public policy expert. She earned a B.A. in American Studies from Yale University and a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law. From 2014 to 2018, she served as president of Demos, a think tank focused on economic inequality and democracy, where she worked on issues including financial reform, household debt, and racial equity.
In *The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together*, McGhee examines racism not only as an injustice inflicted on particular communities but also as a system that weakens public services, wages, education, health, and the environment for society as a whole. Using the history of American towns that closed their public swimming pools rather than integrate them, she exposes the destructive logic of zero-sum thinking—the belief that progress for one racial group must come at another’s expense. In its place, she proposes the idea of a “solidarity dividend”: the shared gains that become possible when people work together across racial divisions.
