Alissa Quart

Alissa Quart serves as the Executive Director of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project (EHRP) since March 2014, leading an initiative founded by journalist and activist Barbara Ehrenreich to support independent reporters covering inequality. Quart has held various influential roles in journalism, including columnist for The Guardian and contributing editor for Columbia Journalism Review. Additionally, Quart has been an adjunct professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and a visiting professor at Brown University, where courses focused on social justice and narrative non-fiction were taught. Quart's educational background includes a Master's degree from Columbia University and a Bachelor's degree in English Literature with Honors in Creative Writing from Brown University.