{{Short description|American journalist}} {{Use mdy dates|date=October 2021}} {{Infobox person | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1969|4|21}} | birth_place = Washington, D.C., U.S. | education = {{Plainlist| *[[University of Michigan]] *[[Columbia University]] }} | occupation = {{hlist|Journalist|writer|teacher}} | years_active = 1992–present | spouse = [[Doug Henwood]] | children = 1 }}
'''Liza Featherstone''' (born April 21, 1969) is an American journalist and journalism professor who writes frequently on [[Labour movement|labor]] and [[student activism]] for ''[[The Nation (U.S. periodical)|The Nation]]'' and ''[[Jacobin (magazine)|Jacobin]]''.
==Early life and education== Featherstone was born in Washington, D.C., and grew up in [[greater Boston]]. She graduated from the [[University of Michigan]] in [[Ann Arbor, Michigan|Ann Arbor]] in 1991 with honors and 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.<ref>[http://web.jrn.columbia.edu/academic_programs/knight-bagehot/fellows2007.asp?printerfriendly=yes Knight-Bagehot Fellows of 2007] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120331224719/http://web.jrn.columbia.edu/academic_programs/knight-bagehot/fellows2007.asp?printerfriendly=yes |date=2012-03-31 }}</ref>
==Career== From 2013 to 2015, Featherstone held the Belle Zeller visiting chair in public policy at [[Brooklyn College]].<ref>[http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/web/news/bcnews/bcnews_131101.php Brooklyn College press release on Zeller chair]</ref> She teaches at [[New York University]]<ref name=nyu/> and [[School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University|Columbia's School of International Public Affairs]].<ref>[https://sipa.columbia.edu/faculty-research/faculty-directory/liza-featherstone-0 Columbia SIPA]</ref>
Featherstone's writing has appeared in ''[[Lingua Franca (magazine)|Lingua Franca]]'', ''[[San Francisco Bay Guardian]]'', ''[[Left Business Observer]]'', ''[[Dissent (American magazine)|Dissent]]'', ''[[Sydney Morning Herald]]'', ''[[Columbia Journalism Review]]'', ''[[The New York Times]]'', ''[[The Washington Post]]'', ''[[Newsday]]'', ''[[In These Times (publication)|In These Times]]'', ''[[Ms. magazine|Ms.]]'', ''[[Salon.com]]'', ''[[Nerve (website)|Nerve]]'', ''[[Us (magazine)|Us]]'', ''[[Nylon (magazine)|Nylon]]'', and ''[[Rolling Stone]]''.<ref name=nyu>[http://journalism.nyu.edu/faculty/liza-featherstone/ NYU faculty profile]</ref>
Featherstone has also written several books. She is the author of ''Divining Desire: Focus Groups and the Culture of Consultation'', published by [[OR Books]], a popular history of the [[focus group]] that situates it in a political context and examines its relationship to [[democracy]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.orbooks.com/catalog/divining-desire-liza-featherstone/ |title=OR Books |accessdate=25 October 2018}}</ref> Featherstone is also the co-author of ''Students Against Sweatshops: The Making of a Movement'' (2002). In 2004, she published ''Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Workers' Rights at Wal-Mart'', a history of [[Dukes vs. Wal-Mart]], the largest [[civil rights]] [[class-action]] suit in history.
==Personal life== Featherstone lives in [[Brooklyn]] and is married to economics journalist [[Doug Henwood]]. They have a son.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://lbo-news.com/2011/09/23/visiting-the-occupiers-of-wall-street/|first=Doug|last=Henwood|date=September 23, 2011|title=Visiting the occupiers of Wall Street|website=LBO News}}</ref> She is a member of the [[Democratic Socialists of America]].<ref>{{cite tweet |number=1536867863859978240 |user=lfeatherz |title= And while I am a proud DSA member, it was not just the DSA-endorsed members: @Kristin4Harlem, @CharlesBarron12 and @OsseChi also voted down the austerity budget: real socialists with serious grassroots organization behind them. |date=15 June 2022 |bot=TweetCiteBot}}</ref>
==Books== *''Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Workers' Rights at Wal-Mart'' (2002) {{ISBN|0-465-02315-0}} *''False Choices: The Faux Feminism of Hillary Rodham Clinton'' (2016) {{ISBN|1784784613}} *''Divining Desire: Focus Groups and the Culture of Consultation'' (2017) {{ISBN|978-1-682191-06-4}}
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==External links== *[http://journalism.nyu.edu/faculty/liza-featherstone/ NYU journalism faculty profile] *[http://www.thenation.com/authors/liza-featherstone Index of articles at ''The Nation''] *[https://jacobinmag.com/author/liza-featherstone Index of articles at ''Jacobin''] *[http://www.alternet.org/authors/890/ Index of articles at Alternet] *[http://www.nybooks.com/articles/17647 Simon Head's review of ''Selling Women Short''] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20100706070009/http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/electronic-publications/stay-free/archives/23/wal-mart-liza-featherstone.html "The Trouble With Wal-Mart," ''Stayfree'' magazine] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20080417084358/http://dir.salon.com/story/mwt/feature/2004/11/22/wal_mart/index.html "Women vs. Wal-Mart"] *{{IMDb name|id=3375575}}
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