Alyssa Katz

Alyssa Katz is the author of The Influence Machine: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Corporate Capture of American Life (Spiegel & Grau, 2015) and a member of the New York Daily News editorial board.

She is also the author of Our Lot: How Real Estate Came to Own Us (Bloomsbury, 2009). Previously, Katz was editor of The New York World, an accountability journalism project at Columbia Journalism School covering city and state government, taught journalism at New York University and the City University of New York, and has written for The American Prospect, The Big Money, Salon, Housing Watch, Mother Jones, The Next American City and other publications. Katz also worked with the Pratt Center for Community Development, an organization that helps community-based organizations in New York City’s low- and moderate-income communities influence city planning and development.

Alyssa was editor-in-chief of City Limits, an award-winning magazine investigating the institutions and policies at work in New York City’s neighborhoods. Before covering urban policy, politics and housing, Alyssa was a cultural critic for The Village Voice, The Nation, and Spin. She received her BA from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Katz lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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