David Wallis Editor & Author

Alissa Quart is the Executive Director of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, created with her close collaborator, the late Barbara Ehrenreich. She is also the author of five acclaimed books of nonfiction including the forthcoming Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream, Squeezed, Republic of Outsiders, Hothouse Kids, and Branded. She has written for many publications including The Washington Post, The New York Times, and TIME. She has also produced a number of documentary films, including "Jackson." Quart has won an Emmy, an SPJ award, and received a Nieman fellowship, among other honors. She lives with her family in Brooklyn.

David Wallis is the Managing Director of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project. He previously served as opinion editor of the Forward and deputy editor of The New YorkObserver. He has contributed to the New Yorker, Slate, The Washington Post and The New YorkTimes, and has edited two critically acclaimed books, Killed: Great Journalism Too Hot To Print and Killed Cartoons: Casualties from the War on Free Expression. In 2000, he founded Featurewell.com, an online syndication service that pays the majority of proceeds to contributors.