SARAH JAFFE is an independent journalist and a reporting fellow at the Nation Institute. She is the cohost of Dissent magazine’s Belabored podcast, as well as an editorial board member at Dissent and a columnist at New Labor Forum. Her work has appeared in The Nation, Salon, The Week, The American Prospect, the Washington Post, The Atlantic, and many other publications. Necessary Trouble: America’s New Radicals is her first book. She lives in Newburgh, New York. For more information, follow her on Twitter @sarahljaffe or head to necessarytrouble.org. CREDIT: JULIETA SALGADO