Alissa Quart is a total media author. She is the author of four non-fiction books, writes the Outclassed column for The Guardian, Alissa is the Executive Editor of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, a non-profit devoted to commissioning, editing and placing reportage about inequality.
A 2018 Columbia Journalism School Alumna of the year, been a Nieman fellow, an Emmy-nominated video writer and producer, and a professor. And in her spare time she has wrote her latest non-fiction book, Squeezed: Why Our Families Can't Afford America,