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Episode 765 Writer and Activist Maura Quint and Heated.World's Emily Atkin

Stand Up! with Pete Dominick

Release Date: 01/23/2023

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Stand Up! with Pete Dominick

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18 mins  Maura Quint  is a humor writer and activist whose work has been featured in publications such as McSweeneys and The New Yorker. She was named one of Rolling Stone’s top 25 funniest twitter accounts of 2016. When not writing comedy, Maura has worked extensively with non-profits in diverse sectors including political action campaigns, international arts collectives and health and human services organizations. She has never been officially paid to protest but did once find fifteen cents on the ground at an immigrants’ rights rally and wanted to make sure that had been disclosed. She was the co founder and executive director of TaxMarch.org 

She is now the Wealth Tax Campaign Director at the Americans for Tax Fairness

55 Mins Emily Atkin the author and founder of HEATED, a daily newsletter dedicated to original accountability reporting and analysis on the climate crisis.

Her reporting is excellent and I support her with a paid subscription. Please consider it

Previously, she was the climate staff writer at The New Republic, and the deputy climate editor at ThinkProgress. Her pieces have appeared in Newsweek, Slate, Mother Jones, and other places.

Emily's mentor was the late investigative journalist Wayne Barrett

Send Climate Story ideas to emily(at)heated(dot)world. Or find her on Twitter.

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