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Liza Featherstone writes about feminism, labor, education, and social justice. She is the author of Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Workers' Rights at Wal-Mart (Basic Books), the co-author of Students Against Sweatshops (Verso), and the author of the forthcoming Behind the Mirror (OR Books), on focus groups. She is a columnist for The Nation and for amNY, and a contributing editor at JSTOR Daily. Her work has been published by The New York Times, The Washington Post, Ms., The San Francisco Chronicle, Slate, The American Prospect, Columbia Journalism Review, Glamour, CNN.com, The Daily Beast, Salon, Teen Vogue, Newsday, the Los Angeles Times, The Brooklyn Rail , Book Forum, The Women's Review of Books and many other publications. Featherstone was the Belle Zeller Visiting Professor of Public Policy at Brooklyn College from 2013-2015, and currently teaches at New York University's Arthur Carter Journalism Institute and Columbia's School for International and Public Affairs. She has received journalism fellowships from Columbia Journalism School, the Nation Institute, and the Hoover Institution. Megan Erickson is an editor at Jacobin magazine and coordinator of early childhood and youth programs at the YMCA. She was formerly an editor and blogger at Big Think, and has taught in both public and private schools in New York City. She lives in Brooklyn. Liu is professor in the Departments of Film and Media Studies/Visual Studies, Comparative Literature and English at the University of California, Irvine, where she also served as director of the UCI Humanities Center. She is the author of Copying Machines: Taking Notes for the Automaton, The American Idyll: Academic Anti-Elitism as Cultural Critique and Virtue Hoarders: The Case Against the Professional Managerial Class. Laura Flanders is the host of "The Laura Flanders Show" on Air America Radio. She is the editor of The W Effect: Bush's War on Women and the author of Real Majority, Media Minority: The Cost of Sidelining Women in Reporting. Donna Murch is an Associate Professor of history at Rutgers University in New Jersey. She is the author of Living for the City: Migration, Education, and the Rise of the Black Panther party in Oakland, California, which won the Phillis Wheatley Prize. Her research and analysis is featured in the award-winning documentary on the Black Panthers, Vanguard of the Revolution. Fred Block is professor emeritus of sociology at the University of California, Davis where he teaches economic and political sociology and leads the Center for Engaged Scholarship. Block is the author of many books and articles, including Capitalism: The Future of An Illusion. Belén Fernández is an editor and feature writer at Pulse Media. Her articles also have appeared on Al-Jazeera, Al-Akhbar English, CounterPunch, Palestine Chronicle, Palestine Think Tank, Rebelión, Tlaxcala, Electronic Intifada, Upside Down World, the London Review of Books blog and Venezuelanalysis.com, among others. She earned her bachelor's degree with a concentration in political science from Columbia University in New York City. Medea Benjamin is a cofounder of the peace group CODEPINK and the international human rights organization Global Exchange. A former economist and nutritionist with the United Nations and World Health Organization, she is the author or editor of eight books. Her articles appear regularly in publications such as the Huffington Post, CommonDreams, AlterNet and OpEd News. |
