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Liza Featherstone
International Affairs Building
Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs
lf2254@columbia.edu
Biography:
Liza Featherstone is the author of Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Workers’ Rights at Wal-Mart (Basic Books, 2004), which was praised by publications ranging from the New York Review of Books to Bitch magazine. Since that book’s publication, she has continued to write about Wal-Mart’s employment practices. Featherstone is also a co-author of Students Against Sweatshops (Verso, 2002).
She has been a Knight-Bagehot Fellow in Business and Economic Journalism at Columbia University, as well as a Hoover Institution Media Fellow.
Featherstone, who teaches “Communique for Credit,” has written for Slate, Salon, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Columbia Journalism Review, Babble, Newsday, The San Francisco Chronicle, The American Prospect, CNN.com, New Labor Forum and many other publications. She is best known for her work in The Nation magazine, where she is a contributing writer.
Featherstone is often invited to discuss her work at colleges, universities, high schools, labor unions, churches and many other venues. She is a frequent media guest, appearing on outlets as varied as CNBC, Fox, the BBC, Al Jazeera English, and “Democracy Now.”
Named Brooklyn’s “Best Education Reporter” by the L magazine, Featherstone is a columnist for The Brooklyn Rail, where she writes about local school politics.
She is also working on a book about focus groups, to be published by OR Books in 2012.