Liza Featherstone
{{Short description|American journalist}}
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Liza Featherstone (born April 21, 1969) is an American journalist and journalism professor who writes frequently on labor and student activism for The Nation and Jacobin.
Early life and education
Featherstone was born in Washington, D.C., and grew up in greater Boston. She graduated from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in 1991 with honors and from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 2008. Featherstone was a Knight-Bagehot Fellow in Business and Economics Journalism at Columbia for 2007–08.[http://web.jrn.columbia.edu/academic_programs/knight-bagehot/fellows2007.asp?printerfriendly=yes Knight-Bagehot Fellows of 2007] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120331224719/http://web.jrn.columbia.edu/academic_programs/knight-bagehot/fellows2007.asp?printerfriendly=yes |date=2012-03-31 }}
Career
From 2013 to 2015, Featherstone held the Belle Zeller visiting chair in public policy at Brooklyn College.[http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/web/news/bcnews/bcnews_131101.php Brooklyn College press release on Zeller chair] She teaches at New York University and Columbia's School of International Public Affairs.[https://sipa.columbia.edu/faculty-research/faculty-directory/liza-featherstone-0 Columbia SIPA]
Featherstone's writing has appeared in Lingua Franca, San Francisco Bay Guardian, Left Business Observer, Dissent, Sydney Morning Herald, Columbia Journalism Review, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Newsday, In These Times, Ms., Salon.com, Nerve, Us, Nylon, and Rolling Stone.[http://journalism.nyu.edu/faculty/liza-featherstone/ NYU faculty profile]
Featherstone has also written several books. She is the author of Divining Desire: Focus Groups and the Culture of Consultation, published by OR Books, a popular history of the focus group that situates it in a political context and examines its relationship to democracy.{{cite web |url=https://www.orbooks.com/catalog/divining-desire-liza-featherstone/ |title=OR Books |accessdate=25 October 2018}} Featherstone is also the co-author of Students Against Sweatshops: The Making of a Movement (2002). In 2004, she published Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Workers' Rights at Wal-Mart, a history of Dukes vs. Wal-Mart, the largest civil rights class-action suit in history.
Personal life
Featherstone lives in Brooklyn and is married to economics journalist Doug Henwood. They have a son.{{cite web|url=https://lbo-news.com/2011/09/23/visiting-the-occupiers-of-wall-street/|first=Doug|last=Henwood|date=September 23, 2011|title=Visiting the occupiers of Wall Street|website=LBO News}} She is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America.{{cite tweet |number=1536867863859978240 |user=lfeatherz |title= And while I am a proud DSA member, it was not just the DSA-endorsed members: @Kristin4Harlem, @CharlesBarron12 and @OsseChi also voted down the austerity budget: real socialists with serious grassroots organization behind them. |date=15 June 2022 |bot=TweetCiteBot}}
Books
- Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Workers' Rights at Wal-Mart (2002) {{ISBN|0-465-02315-0}}
- False Choices: The Faux Feminism of Hillary Rodham Clinton (2016) {{ISBN|1784784613}}
- Divining Desire: Focus Groups and the Culture of Consultation (2017) {{ISBN|978-1-682191-06-4}}
References
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External links
- [http://journalism.nyu.edu/faculty/liza-featherstone/ NYU journalism faculty profile]
- [http://www.thenation.com/authors/liza-featherstone Index of articles at The Nation]
- [https://jacobinmag.com/author/liza-featherstone Index of articles at Jacobin]
- [http://www.alternet.org/authors/890/ Index of articles at Alternet]
- [http://www.nybooks.com/articles/17647 Simon Head's review of Selling Women Short]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20100706070009/http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/electronic-publications/stay-free/archives/23/wal-mart-liza-featherstone.html "The Trouble With Wal-Mart," Stayfree magazine]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20080417084358/http://dir.salon.com/story/mwt/feature/2004/11/22/wal_mart/index.html "Women vs. Wal-Mart"]
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Category:American socialist feminists
Category:Members of the Democratic Socialists of America from New York (state)