Allison Kilkenny

Allison Kilkenny is an American journalist and co-host of the political podcast Citizen Radio. Kilkenny is a social critic and blogger for The Nation. Kilkenny covers "budget wars, activism, uprising, dissent and general rabble-rousing". Kilkenny is best known for her contributions to political and humor websites like the Huffington Post, Talking Points Memo, 23/6, the Beast, Counterpunch.org, the Nation, and Alternet.org. Her work has been also featured on W. Kamau Bell's blog.

Kilkenny grew up in Naperville, Illinois. She attended Illinois State University, graduating in 2005 with a major in English. Kilkenny moved to New York City, where she met her husband Jamie Kilstein at a chain bookstore where the two were employed. She currently resides in Brooklyn with Jamie. Kilkenny is an outspoken atheist and activist. She is also vegan.

Kilkenny said her political awakening was sparked by reading works by Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky. "I wanted to run up to total strangers, screaming, 'HOLY SHIT! EVERYTHING YOU THINK YOU BELIEVE IS A LIE!'" she said. She also credits Democracy Now's Amy Goodman as an inspiration to more political thought.

Kilkenny has been described as a "fast-rising radio and print reporter-columnist." Her journalist career has come about entirely on the Internet. The Daily Kos called her "among the handful of youngish political journalists to have gained a solid readership by the direct and unorthodox means of the blogosphere." When asked to describe herself by Feministing in a 2008 interview, Kilkenny deemed herself a "political humorist" or, in other words, "a fancy way of saying writer, who makes shitty world news funny.”

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