Melissa Chadburn

Melissa Chadburn manages economic justice fellows at the Center for Community Change and teaches journalism at Loyola Marymount University. Her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, NYT Book Review, NYRB, Longreads, and dozens of other places. Her debut novel, A Tiny Upward Shove, is forthcoming with Farrar, Straus, & Giroux.

Now is the Time for Equity Journalism

Melissa Chadburn Challenges Traditional Approaches to Reporting

February 27, 2019 By Melissa Chadburn

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This Wanting Business: On the Cost and Labor of Writing

Just How Expensive Can the Writing Life Be?

August 28, 2018 By Melissa Chadburn

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Mothers Who Leave Their Children

Melissa Chadburn on the Pain of Motherless Nights

July 24, 2017 By Melissa Chadburn

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