Alissa is devoted to reporting on inequality.

Alissa is the author four nonfiction books: Republic of Outsiders: The Power of Amateurs, Dreamers and Rebels (2013), Hothouse Kids: The Dilemma of the Gifted Child (2007), Branded: The Buying and Selling of Teenagers (2003), and Squeezed: Why Our Families Can't Afford America (2018), which was named one of Time’s Best Books to Read This Summer. 

As the executive director of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, a nonprofit she co-founded with Barbara Ehrenreich, Alissa is devoted to commissioning, editing, and placing reportage about inequality. She also writes the “Outclassed” column for The Guardian, and was named a 2018 Columbia Journalism School Alumna of the year. She’s been a Nieman fellow, an Emmy-nominated video writer and producer, and a college professor.

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