Felicia Kornbluh

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Felicia Kornbluh
BornFelicia Kornbluh
(1966-03-31)March 31, 1966
OccupationAmerican scholar, writer, feminist activist and Professor
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAmerican
EducationB.A ,1989 (Social Studies)
MA,(1994)
Ph.D. in History (2000)
Alma materHarvard-Radcliffe College, Princeton University
SpouseM. Anore Horton
Relatives Karen Kornbluh (sister)
Dr. Rebecca Kornbluh (sister)
Beatrice Cogan Braun (Parent)
David Kornbluh (Parent)

Felicia Kornbluh (born March 31, 1966) is an American scholar, writer, and feminist activist and Professor of History and of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies at the University of Vermont. [1] [2] [3]

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Biography

Kornbluh was born in Manhattan, New York City. While in High School, Kornbluh was a reporter for [4] and, ultimately, Senior Editor, of Children's Express, [5] the national youth journalism and advocacy organization, which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1982. [6] Her work for Children's Express appeared in newspapers across the country. [7] [8] She reported from Cambodia in 1980. [9] She was among the first Western journalists to enter the country following the Vietnamese incursion late in 1979. She also reported from Japan, including from Hiroshima, [10] and from the Soviet Union, on children's status and their views of the nuclear threat. [11] While attending Harvard-Radcliffe College, and then again after graduating, Kornbluh served on the staff of the U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee on Children, Youth and Families, chaired by Rep. George Miller (D-CA). She participated in the Committee's effort to pass legislation that would vastly expand the nation's system of child care. [12] [13] While in college, she co-founded the political opinion journal in college, Subterranean Review. [14] She also wrote for the Harvard Crimson. [15] After college, Kornbluh returned to the Select Committee and, later worked on the Changing Priorities Project of the Institute for Policy Studies. [16] [17]

Career

Kornbluh is the author of The Battle for Welfare Rights (University of Pennsylvania, 2007) [18] which chronicles the history of the National Welfare Rights Organization, a membership organization of low-income people, especially women of color. [19] Kornbluh served for five years as Director of the Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies Program at the University of Vermont. She led a renaming of the program and a reform of the curriculum that led to the inclusion of sexuality and gender identity studies. She collaborated with a wide range of university and community partners on public educational events on the subjects of same-sex marriage; women's electoral participation; family policy; gender and precarity; and the intersections among race, gender, and sexuality. She also served as President of United Academics, AFT/AAUP, the UVM faculty union, and as a member of the state leadership of the American Federation of Teachers union, and as an advisor to and member of the Vermont Commission on Women, a non-partisan state agency that works to advance rights and opportunities for women and girls. [20] [21] She cofounded the activist network Historians for Social Justice, Speaking Out: Activism and Protest in the 1960s and 1970s. [22] From 1995 to 2005, she participated actively in the Women's Committee of 100, [23] a feminist mobilization for welfare justice.

She has served on the advisory board of the activist organization Rights and Democracy since its founding in 2016. [24]

She is a co-author, with political scientist Gwendolyn Mink, of the forthcoming Ensuring Poverty: The History and Politics of Welfare Reform.[ citation needed ] Before training as a historian, she was an advocate for women and children, and a freelance writer. [25] Kornbluh is a graduate of the Emerge Vermont training program for Democratic women [26] and a frequent commentator on Vermont [27] and national media. [28]

Selected works

Kornbluh has written numerous articles in academic and non-academic journals on the subjects of poverty, social welfare, activism, disability, LGBT history, and women's rights. Her writing appears in:

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  2. ↑ "Best of CounterSpin 2015". fair.org.
  3. ↑ "American Growth". nytimes.
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  5. ↑ "A taste of real-world journalism for 9- to 13-year-olds". csimonitor.
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  11. ↑ "Kids worry about nuclear war, too". upi.
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  19. ↑ "The Battle for Welfare Rights - Politics and Poverty in Modern America". upenn.edu.
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