Liza Featherstone (born April 21, 1969) is an American journalist and journalism professor who writes frequently on labor and student activism for The Nation and Jacobin.
[1] From 2013 to 2015, Featherstone held the Belle Zeller visiting chair in public policy at Brooklyn College.
[2] She teaches at New York University[3] and Columbia's School of International Public Affairs.
[4] Featherstone's writing has 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.
Featherstone lives in Brooklyn and is married to economics journalist Doug Henwood.