Alissa Quart has become editorial director of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project.
Quart is the author of five books of nonfiction, including “Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from
the American Dream” (Ecco, 2023), “Squeezed” and “Branded.”
She collaborated on creating the Project with Barbara Ehrenreich and has run it for 12 years. She is also the author of two books of poetry and has written for many publications, including The Washington Post, The New York Times and Time.
Her awards include an Emmy, an SPJ Award, and a Nieman fellowship.
The Economic Hardship Reporting Project supports independent journalists as they produce stories about inequality.
EHRP’s high-quality journalism is then co-published with mainstream media outlets, to help readers understand and address systemic hardship. It is now looking for a new executive director. Apply here.
