Barbara Ehrenreich

Ehrenreich’s childhood was spent moving frequently around the country, as her father worked his way up from mining into middle-class status. She attended Reed College in Oregon, and received her Ph.D. in cell biology at Rockefeller University. After the birth of her first child, she became involved in the fight for better women’s health care. She ultimately became a full-time writer, breaking into the field with articles on women’s rights and social justice issues. She continues to balance her journalism and book-length projects on social and inequality issues with her activism in health care, women’s rights, and economic justice.