Alissa is available to speak on a range of subjects from the value of thinking and living differently to issues that confront working women. To find out more, please contact HarperCollins Speakers Bureau and see some of Alissa’s talks below.
TV, Radio, and Speaking
Apr. 2023 | Here and Now, “Bootstrapped” NPR, WBUR
Apr. 2023 | "Episode 5: Three Ways to Eradicate Child Poverty and Its Residual Effects with Kercena Dozier, Alissa Quart, and Dr. Rita Hamad," The Invisible Americans Podcast
Apr. 2023 | "Is the American Dream a Long Con?," The Nation
Apr. 2023 | "Is the American DreamAuthor on new book, 'Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream' a Long Con?," KPCW’s Mountain Money
Apr. 2023 | "'Bootstrapped': The self-made myth and the 'dystopian social safety net' it created," Marketplace
Apr. 2023 | "The Mehdi Hasan Show - April 2nd, 2023," MSNBC’s The Mehdi Hasan Show
Apr. 2023 | "'Pull yourself up by your bootstraps': How a joke about bootstraps devolved into an American credo," Salon
Mar. 2023 | "Dana Milbank, Brian Beutler & Alissa Quart," Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast
Mar. 2023 | "'Bootstrapped': Alissa Quart on Liberating Ourselves from the Myth of the American Dream," Democracy Now!
Mar. 2023 | "'Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream' by Alissa Quart," WAMC Northeast Public Radio's The Roundtable
Mar. 2023 | "American self-reliance can steer us wrong. Can the 'art of dependence' take its place?," Wisconsin Public Radio
Mar. 2023 | "Alissa Quart," Team Human
Mar. 2023 | "How the myth of pulling yourself up by the bootstraps causes harm," MSNBC’s Morning Joe
Mar. 2023 | "America’s Broken Safety Net—and How to Address It: An Interview with Alissa Quart," Nonprofit Quarterly
Mar. 2023 | "Revisiting the American Dream," The Gray Area with Sean Illing
Mar. 2023 | "Author and advocate Alissa Quart on the power of underrepresented voices," Crain’s New York Business
Sep. 2022 | "Barbara Ehrenreich Remembered: How She Covered Poverty & Started Economic Hardship Reporting Project," Democracy Now!
Sep. 2022 | "Remembering Barbara Ehrenreich," NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday and WAMU
Sep. 2022 | "Jean-Luc Godard, Barbara Ehrenreich, Dennis Wilson, Mavis Nicholson," BBC’s Last Word
Feb. 2022 | "Rich Language w/ Alissa Quart," PBS’s Attribution, a podcast from The Moving Up Media Lab
Feb. 2022 | "The American dream of the middle class isn’t what it used to be," CNBC
Oct. 2021 | "Ray Suarez and Alissa Quart on Economic Hardship in the U.S.," C-SPAN
Oct. 2021 | "A Veteran Journalist Finds Himself the Center of the Story," The Nation
Sep. 2021 | "The end of the middle class: Why prosperity is failing in America," Big Think
May 2021 | "Alissa Quart: Avoid making 4 side hustle mistakes," CNBC Make It
Mar. 2020 | "What The Coronavirus Crisis Means For Those Already Struggling," WBUR
Nov. 2019 | "Bernice Yeung with Alissa Quart," with Bernice Yeung at Bernie Wohl Center
Nov. 2019 | "'Thoughts And Prayers' Author On How To Recover The Meaning Of Words We Use Again And Again," NPR's Here and Now
Jan. 2019 | "Stephanie Land: Maid w/ Alissa Quart" with Stephanie Land at Books Are Magic
Nov. 2018 | "Study: Most U.S. salaries don’t support middle-class lifestyles," MSNBC
Nov. 2018 | "Open Phones with Alissa Quart," C-SPAN
Oct. 2018 | "Alissa Quart, Author 'Squeezed'," ThirtyFour-50 Radio Show
Oct. 2018 | "Interview with Alissa Quart," The Zachary Karabell Podcast
Jul. 2018 | "Alissa Quart, author of 'Squeezed'," The Bruce St. James & Pamela Hughes Show
Jul. 2018 | "'Squeezed' Explores Why America Is Getting Too Expensive For The Middle Class," KCUR
Jun. 2018 | "'Why Our Families Can't Afford America' / Singer Frank Newsome," NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross
Jun. 2018 | "Why can’t I make ends meet? Why can’t I make this math work?," Marketplace
Jun. 2018 | "Journalist Alissa Quart On Income Inequality, The Shrinking Middle Class, And Her Book “Squeezed”," GBH News
Dec. 2017 | "The Sexual Harassment Stakes for Low-Income Women," Bloomberg Markets
Nov. 2017 | "The Sexual Harassment Conversation is Class-Skewed," WNYC's The Brian Lehrer Show
Oct. 2017 | "American Hardship," PBS
Apr. 2015 | "WAMC’s Alan Chartock In Conversation With Alissa Quart," In Conversation with Alan Chartock
Mar. 2015 | "Using Poetry To Expose The Power Of Money, Class And Gender," NPR's Here and Now
Nov. 2014 | "Not daycare, but anytime care" with Krystal Ball, MSNBC
Feb. 2014 | "Generation Like," PBS FRONTLINE
Sept. 2013 | "Outsiders: Challenging Society's Idea of Normal," PRI's The Takeaway
Sept. 2013 | "Alissa Quart & Susan Cain discuss Republic of Outsiders" with Susan Cain at The Strand, Bookforum
Aug. 2013 | "Disrupt The Status Quo: Alissa Quart On The Perks Of Being an Outsider," The Lavin Blog
Jun. 2013 | "From Gen X to Z: Teens and the New Cool," Frontline
Sep. 2012 | "The Parents Journal-September 17, 2012-Alissa Quart," The Parents Journal with Bobbi Conner
Aug. 2006 | "Gifted and Pressured?," The Leonard Lopate Show on New York Public Radio
Aug. 2006 | "Alissa Quart: “Hothouse Kids” (Penguin Press)," The Diane Rehm Show on American University Radio
Feb. 2003 | "Alissa Quart: "Branded" (Perseus)," The Diane Rehm Show on American University Radio
Mar. 2003 | "Consuming Passions: Shopping and Brand Names," C-SPAN
Feb. 2003 | "Book Discussion on Branded: The Buying and Selling of Teenagers," C-SPAN
Feb. 2003 | "Teens for Sale," The Tavis Smiley Show on National Public Radio