16 Facts About Alissa Quart

Alissa Quart was born on 1972 and is an American nonfiction writer, critic, journalist, editor, and poet.

Alissa Quart was Executive Producer of the film "Jackson" that won an Emmy for Best Documentary, Social Issue.

Alissa Quart is Executive Director of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, founded by Barbara Ehrenreich.

Alissa Quart has taught at Brown University and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, and is a 2010 Nieman Fellowship recipient.

Alissa Quart says that she grew up as a brilliant prodigy.

Alissa Quart received a BA in English Literature with Honors in Creative Writing from Brown University in 1994 then did graduate work in English Literature for a year at CUNY Graduate Center before completing a Master of Science at Columbia Graduate School of Journalism in 1997.

Alissa Quart is the executive director of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, a nonprofit organization that funds independent reporters covering social inequality and economic justice.

In 2003, Alissa Quart published Branded: The Buying and Selling of Teenagers which illustrates and criticizes the way that corporations chase teenagers and pre-teens.

Alissa Quart published Hothouse Kids: The Dilemma of the Gifted Child, a book that examines the cultures of extreme child-rearing that can be found across the US that puts heavy emphasis on early achievement.

Alissa Quart turns a skeptical eye on the growing genius-building business that includes the Baby Einstein videos, the Scripps National Spelling Bee, and IQ tests.

Alissa Quart's point is that all are examples of "counterpublics" who crucially re-form what is considered acceptable, allowing further diversity of options.

Alissa Quart ends with a powerful example of Occupy Bank Working Group, or an offshoot of Occupy Wall Street headed by an ex-banker whose goals include to make a nonpredatory credit card for the needy.

Alissa Quart coined the term hyperlink cinema in 2005 in a review of the film Happy Endings for Film Comment.

Alissa Quart commissioned and helped originate Maisie Crow's 50-minute documentary about the Jackson Women's Health Organization, the last abortion clinic in Mississippi, writing its National Magazine Award-nominated multimedia story for the Atavist.

Alissa Quart's poetry has been published by the London Review of Books, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and news and culture website the Awl, among other places: In 2002, she came out with a chapbook, Solarized, a lyrically and sonically complex work that shares the thematic preoccupations of her journalism: commercialism, gender identity and being a young woman, gentrification, 1970s and indie film, advertising, adolescence, and bad tourism.

Alissa Quart is married to Peter Maass, a journalist, and they live in New York City.