Liza Featherstone | |
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Born |
Washington, D.C., United States |
April 21, 1969
Education |
University of Michigan (1991) Columbia University (2008) |
Occupation | Journalist, Writer, Teacher |
Years active | 1992–present |
Spouse(s) | Doug Henwood |
Liza Featherstone (born April 21, 1969) is an American journalist and journalism professor who writes frequently on labor and student activism for The Nation.
Featherstone was born in Washington, D.C, and grew up in Greater Boston, Massachusetts, USA. She graduated with honors from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in 1991 and graduated 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. From 2013–2015 she held the Belle Zeller visiting chair in public policy at Brooklyn College. She currently teaches at NYU and Columbia's School of International Public Affairs.
In addition to The Nation and Slate's "The Big Money", Featherstone's writing has also 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.