Eleni Schirmer
Eleni Schirmer is a writer and a research associate with the Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy at the University of California, Los Angeles. She also organizes with the Debt Collective.
“You Blitz!” Jane McAlevey’s Answer to What to Do When We Don’t Have Enough Time.
Co-published with The Nation. The Nation’s strikes correspondent was happy to be profiled in The New Yorker. There was just one problem: She didn’t want any mention of her terminal illness.
Reports of the Death of Biden’s Student Debt Cancellation Program Are Premature
Co-published with The Nation. Pronouncing debt cancellation DOA takes the Supreme Court’s ruling as the last word—precisely at the moment when the court’s authority demands challenge, not complacency.
How the Government Cancelled Betty Ann’s Debts
Co-published with The New Yorker. For a 91-year-old law-school graduate, the Department of Education discharged more than three hundred thousand dollars in student debt. Could relief be that simple?
