Liza Featherstone

Liza Featherstone is an author, journalist, essayist, critic and teacher. She has written and reported extensively on left social movements in the United States. She is a columnist at Jacobin and The New Republic, as well as a contributing writer at The Nation. Featherstone is the author of Divining Desire: Focus Groups and the Culture of Consultation (O/R Books, 2018), and Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Workers’ Rights at Wal-Mart (Basic Books, 2004), among other books. Featherstone’s work has also been published in Lux, TV Guide, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Ms., The American Prospect, Columbia Journalism Review, Glamour, Teen Vogue, Dissent, The Guardian, In These Times and many other publications. She teaches writing at NYU and Columbia. Featherstone is also an active member of NYC-Democratic Socialists of America and ACT-UAW(local 7902).