Kim Kelly is an independent journalist, author, and organizer.

A regular labor columnist for Teen Vogue, her writings on labor and culture have appeared in The New Republic and Esquire, among other publications.

Kelly has also worked as a video correspondent for More Perfect Union, The Real News Network, and Means TV, previously being  the heavy metal editor at “Noisey’ and an original member of the VICE Union.

A third-generation union member, she is a member of the IWW’s Freelance Journalists Union as well as an elected council person for the Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE).

Born in the heart of the South Jersey Pine Barrens and currently living in Philadelphia, Kelly is set to appear at Politics and Prose and discuss her novel “Fight Like Hell” with union activist Sara Nelson.

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