Media, Policy & Op-Eds

“Best and Worst States for Women’s Equality,” Ask the Experts, WalletHub, August 19, 2024.

BBC interview about gender and the revival of “Machinal” at the Old Vic, Woman’s Hour, BBC Radio 4, April 16, 2024.

“Best and Worst States for Women (2024),” Ask the Experts, WalletHub, February 26, 2024.

“Challenging and Documenting State Violence: A Conversation with Kipp Dawson,” with Catherine A. Evans and Kipp Dawson, The Abusable Past (blog of the Radical History Review, February 12, 2024).

“Equal Pay Act turns 60, but Wage Gaps Remain between Men and Women” (Tribune Review, September 2, 2023).

“Advocacy and Agency” webinar discussion with Kathleen Buechel and Tony Macklin about the history of philanthropy in Pittsburgh. (October 2021)

“Women and philanthropy,” podcast conversation with Kathleen Buechel and Kristy Trautmann of the FISA Foundation. (November 2021)

“Mothers Post Support in PIT Nursing Lounge,” interview for Blue Sky News, August 16, 2021.

“4 Pandemic Teaching Strategies to Keep When this is Over,” Inside Higher Ed, July 22, 2021.

“States with the Most Underprivileged Children,” Ask the Experts, WalletHub, August 26, 2020.

“Building an Equitable New Normal: Responding to the Crises of Racist Violence and COVID-19,” policy recommendations for the Gender Equity Commission presented to the City of Pittsburgh, June 2020.

“ChutzPOW! Superheroes of the Holocaust,” introduction to Volume IX, Women’s Stories, The Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh, January 2020.

“A Note From Your Hearing-Impaired Colleagues: Just Use a Microphone Already,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 20, 2019.

“Why We Believe Christine Blasey Ford,” with Sara Goodkind, Public Source, September 27, 2018.

“Parenting a Child Who Wants to Disappear: A Suicide Safe-Tea Plan,” Editor’s choice, featured story with audio version on Medium.com, June 8, 2018. Winner of the “Into the Light” essay context, 2018.

“Put Them on a Pedestal: Black Women are Conspicuously Absent from Pittsburgh’s Public Art,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, The Next Page, October 15, 2017.

“2017’s States with the Most Underprivileged Children,” Ask the Experts, WalletHub, August 9, 2017.

“7 Religious Reasons I’m Not Letting My Kids Take Standardized Tests,” AlterNet.org, April 22, 2015.

“The Religious Reasons My Kids Won’t be Taking Common Core Tests,” Washington Post, April 17, 2015.

“Students Deliver Wish List to School Board. There’s One Item on It,” Washington Post: December 17, 2014.

“You Can’t Even Buy Groceries for $160, Let Alone Run a School for 400 Kids for a Year,” Washington Post: November 10, 2014.

“A Dozen Problems with Charter Schools,” Washington Post: May 20, 2014.

“13 Ways High-Stakes Standardized Tests Hurt Students,” Washington Post: March 11, 2014.

“How Field Testing turns Kids into Guinea Pigs – Without Parental Permission,” Washington Post: February 10, 2014.

“The Problem with Choice,” AlterNet.org: February 8, 2014.

“Six Questions for Teach for America,” AlterNet.org: November 21, 2013.

“A Teacher’s Troubling Account of Giving a 106-Question Standardized Test to 11 Year Olds,” Washington Post: October 6, 2013 (ranked #2 top story). Re-published on AlterNet: October 12, 2013.

“PA Gets NCLB Waiver, But Still No Funding for Schools in Low-Income Districts,” AlterNet.org: August 29, 2013.

“Keeping Family Together,” The Next Page feature article, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: June 23, 2013.

“Why public education is an LGBTQI issue.” Pittsburgh Lesbian Correspondents: June 15, 2013.

“A Handy Reference Guide on Who is Donating to Corporate Style Education Reform,” AlterNet.org: May 15, 2013.

“The Everyday Heroism of Our Nation’s Teachers,” AlterNet.org: December 19, 2012.

“Don’t Be Fooled: For Investors, Charter Schools are Cash Cows,” AlterNet.org: October 25, 2012.

“Hey Corporate Reformers: Guess What? We Won’t Back Down Either,” AlterNet.org: September 27, 2012.

“White House Education Advisors Talk the Talk – But Can They Walk the Walk When it Comes to Dismantling NCLB?” AlterNet.org: September 5, 2012

“One State’s Poor Excuse for Funneling Taxpayer Cash to Private Schools,” AlterNet.org: August 21, 2012.

“The Competition Fallacy,” AlterNet.org: June 26, 2012.

“Tom Corbett’s Very Bad Week,” AlterNet.org: May 28, 2012.

“Arts Education an Operatic Tragedy,” Huffington Post: May 10, 2012.

“What I Told the White House,” AlterNet.org: March 31, 2012.