About our Contributors
- About our Contributors
Mimi Abramovitz is the Bertha Capen Reynolds Professor of Social Policy at the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College, CUNY. She also teaches in the CUNY Social Welfare Doctoral Program and is a member of the Consortial Faculty at the Murphy Institute. She is the author of many books and articles on women, poverty, and the welfare state, and can be reached at iabramov@hunter.cuny.edu.
Maggie Anderson was born in New York City and spent her teenage years in West Virginia, where she discovered her family’s Appalachian heritage. She is the author of several poetry collections, the most recent of which is Windfall: New and Selected Poems (2000).
Arlene Holt Baker is Executive Vice President of the national AFL-CIO, serving her second term. She has thirty years of experience as a grassroots organizer and working with community groups with a focus on the issues of women, people of color, gays and lesbians, immigrants, and the working poor.
Ben Becker is a Ph.D. candidate in U.S. history at the City University of New York’s Graduate Center. He can be reached at bbecker@gc.cuny.edu.
Chuck Collins is a senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies. He directs its Program on Inequality and the Common Good, and co-edits www.inequality.org (a web portal of data, analysis, and commentary). He is the co-author of Economic Apartheid in America: A Primer on Economic Inequality and Insecurity, Wealth and Our Commonwealth: Why America Should Tax Accumulated Fortunes (with Bill Gates Sr.), and The Moral Measure of the Economy. He can be reached at chuckcollins7@mac.com.
Jim Daniels grew up in a working-class neighborhood in Detroit and worked summers in a Ford axle plant to earn money for college. His first book of poems, Places/Everyone, won the 1985 Brittingham Prize in Poetry.
Ellen Dannin teaches at Penn State’s Dickinson School of Law and is the author of Taking Back the Workers’ Law: How to Fight the Assault on Labor Rights. She can be reached at ejd13@psu.edu.
Amy Dean is the co-author of A New New Deal: How Regional Activism Will Reshape the American Labor Movement. She worked for nearly two decades in the labor movement. Dean is principal of ABD Ventures LLC, a consulting firm that works with social change organizations in progressive, labor, and faith communities to develop new and innovative organizing strategies. You can follow Amy on Twitter at @amybdean, or she can be reached via www.amybdean.com.
Darren Dochuk is Associate Professor of History at Purdue University and author of From Bible Belt to Sunbelt: Plain-Folk Religion, Grassroots Politics, and the Rise of Evangelical Conservatism, which won the 2011 John H. Dunning Prize from the American Historical Association. He can be reached at ddochuk@purdue.edu.
Peter Dreier teaches politics and chairs the Urban and Environmental Policy department at Occidental College. He is a co-author of The Next Los Angeles: The Struggle for a Livable City and Place Matters: Metropolitics for the 21st Century. His next book, The 100 Greatest Americans of the 20th Century: A Social Justice Hall of Fame, will be published by Nation Books this spring. He can be reached at dreier@oxy.edu.
Liza Featherstone is a contributing writer at the Nation and her writing on labor issues has appeared in Slate, Salon, Newsday, the New York Times, and many other publications. She is the author of Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Workers’ Rights at Wal-Mart and the co-author of Students Against Sweatshops. She teaches in the Union Semester program at the Murphy Institute and in NYU’s journalism school, and can be reached at lfeather@panix.com. [End Page 118]
Mary Fell grew up in Worcester, Massachusetts. She now lives in Indiana and teaches writing and literature at Indiana University-East. Her first collection of poetry, The Persistence of Memory, was published in 1983 and selected for the National Poetry Series. She can be reached at mfell@iue.edu.
Steve Fraser is a writer, editor, and historian. He can be reached at fraser927@aol.com.
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