Liza Featherstone
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| Born | April 21, 1969 Washington, D.C., U.S. |
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| Years active | 1992–present |
| Spouse | Doug Henwood |
| Children | 1 |
Liza Featherstone (born April 21, 1969) is an American journalist and journalism professor who writes frequently on
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.[1]
Career
From 2013 to 2015, Featherstone held the Belle Zeller visiting chair in public policy at Brooklyn College.[2] She teaches at New York University[3] and Columbia's School of International Public Affairs.[4]
Featherstone's writing has appeared in
Featherstone has also written several books. She is the author of Divining Desire: Focus Groups and the Culture of Consultation, published by
Personal life
Featherstone lives in Brooklyn and is married to economics journalist Doug Henwood. They have a son.[6] She is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America.[7]
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
- ^ Knight-Bagehot Fellows of 2007 Archived 2012-03-31 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Brooklyn College press release on Zeller chair
- ^ a b NYU faculty profile
- ^ Columbia SIPA
- ^ "OR Books". Retrieved October 25, 2018.
- ^ Henwood, Doug (September 23, 2011). "Visiting the occupiers of Wall Street". LBO News.
- ^ @lfeatherz (June 15, 2022). "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" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
External links
- NYU journalism faculty profile
- Index of articles at The Nation
- Index of articles at Jacobin
- Index of articles at Alternet
- Simon Head's review of Selling Women Short
- "The Trouble With Wal-Mart," Stayfree magazine
- "Women vs. Wal-Mart"
- Liza Featherstone at IMDb
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