# Liza Featherstone

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American journalist

Liza Featherstone Born (1969-04-21) April 21, 1969 (age 57) Washington, D.C., U.S. Education University of Michigan Columbia University Occupations 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 [labor](/source/Labour_movement) and [student activism](/source/Student_activism) for *[The Nation](/source/The_Nation_(U.S._periodical))* and *[Jacobin](/source/Jacobin_(magazine))*.

## Early life and education

Featherstone was born in Washington, D.C., and grew up in [greater Boston](/source/Greater_Boston). She graduated from the [University of Michigan](/source/University_of_Michigan) in [Ann Arbor](/source/Ann_Arbor%2C_Michigan) in 1991 with honors and from the [Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism](/source/Columbia_University_Graduate_School_of_Journalism) in 2008. Featherstone was a Knight-Bagehot Fellow in Business and Economics Journalism at Columbia for 2007–08.[1]

## Career

From 2013 to 2015, Featherstone held the Belle Zeller visiting chair in public policy at [Brooklyn College](/source/Brooklyn_College).[2] She teaches at [New York University](/source/New_York_University)[3] and [Columbia's School of International Public Affairs](/source/School_of_International_and_Public_Affairs%2C_Columbia_University).[4]

Featherstone's writing has appeared in *[Lingua Franca](/source/Lingua_Franca_(magazine))*, *[San Francisco Bay Guardian](/source/San_Francisco_Bay_Guardian)*, *[Left Business Observer](/source/Left_Business_Observer)*, *[Dissent](/source/Dissent_(American_magazine))*, *[Sydney Morning Herald](/source/Sydney_Morning_Herald)*, *[Columbia Journalism Review](/source/Columbia_Journalism_Review)*, *[The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times)*, *[The Washington Post](/source/The_Washington_Post)*, *[Newsday](/source/Newsday)*, *[In These Times](/source/In_These_Times_(publication))*, *[Ms.](/source/Ms._magazine)*, *[Salon.com](/source/Salon.com)*, *[Nerve](/source/Nerve_(website))*, *[Us](/source/Us_(magazine))*, *[Nylon](/source/Nylon_(magazine))*, and *[Rolling Stone](/source/Rolling_Stone)*.[3]

Featherstone has also written several books. She is the author of *Divining Desire: Focus Groups and the Culture of Consultation*, published by [OR Books](/source/OR_Books), a popular history of the [focus group](/source/Focus_group) that situates it in a political context and examines its relationship to [democracy](/source/Democracy).[5] 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](/source/Dukes_vs._Wal-Mart), the largest [civil rights](/source/Civil_rights) [class-action](/source/Class-action) suit in history.

## Personal life

Featherstone lives in [Brooklyn](/source/Brooklyn) and is married to economics journalist [Doug Henwood](/source/Doug_Henwood). They have a son.[6] She is a member of the [Democratic Socialists of America](/source/Democratic_Socialists_of_America).[7]

## Books

- *Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Workers' Rights at Wal-Mart* (2002) [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-465-02315-0](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-465-02315-0)

- *False Choices: The Faux Feminism of Hillary Rodham Clinton* (2016) [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [1784784613](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1784784613)

- *Divining Desire: Focus Groups and the Culture of Consultation* (2017) [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1-682191-06-4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-682191-06-4)

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** [Knight-Bagehot Fellows of 2007](http://web.jrn.columbia.edu/academic_programs/knight-bagehot/fellows2007.asp?printerfriendly=yes) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20120331224719/http://web.jrn.columbia.edu/academic_programs/knight-bagehot/fellows2007.asp?printerfriendly=yes) 2012-03-31 at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** [Brooklyn College press release on Zeller chair](http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/web/news/bcnews/bcnews_131101.php)

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-nyu_3-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-nyu_3-1) [NYU faculty profile](http://journalism.nyu.edu/faculty/liza-featherstone/)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** [Columbia SIPA](https://sipa.columbia.edu/faculty-research/faculty-directory/liza-featherstone-0)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** ["OR Books"](https://www.orbooks.com/catalog/divining-desire-liza-featherstone/). Retrieved October 25, 2018.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** Henwood, Doug (September 23, 2011). ["Visiting the occupiers of Wall Street"](https://lbo-news.com/2011/09/23/visiting-the-occupiers-of-wall-street/). *LBO News*.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** @lfeatherz (June 15, 2022). ["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"](https://twitter.com/lfeatherz/status/1536867863859978240) ([Tweet](/source/Tweet_(social_media))) – via [Twitter](/source/Twitter).

## External links

- [NYU journalism faculty profile](http://journalism.nyu.edu/faculty/liza-featherstone/)

- [Index of articles at *The Nation*](http://www.thenation.com/authors/liza-featherstone)

- [Index of articles at *Jacobin*](https://jacobinmag.com/author/liza-featherstone)

- [Index of articles at Alternet](http://www.alternet.org/authors/890/)

- [Simon Head's review of *Selling Women Short*](http://www.nybooks.com/articles/17647)

- ["The Trouble With Wal-Mart," *Stayfree* magazine](https://web.archive.org/web/20100706070009/http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/electronic-publications/stay-free/archives/23/wal-mart-liza-featherstone.html)

- ["Women vs. Wal-Mart"](https://web.archive.org/web/20080417084358/http://dir.salon.com/story/mwt/feature/2004/11/22/wal_mart/index.html)

- [Liza Featherstone](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3375575/) at [IMDb](/source/IMDb_(identifier))

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