Student Debt Crisis Center @debtcrisisorg.bsky.social Student Debt Crisis Center is a national advocacy organization calling for fundamental reforms to student loan policies and an end to the student debt crisis once and for all.
Jesse Rothstein @jrothst.bsky.social Economist, public policy wonk, professor at UC Berkeley, faculty director of California Policy Lab & Center for Studies in Higher Education
Zach Bleemer @zbleemer.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Economics at Princeton and NBER | Education and Economic Mobility
Rainesford Stauffer @rainesford.bsky.social Freelance writer, reporter, author. Kentuckian.
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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social Inequality, higher education, gender, work and organizations, open science, Alaska.
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Nick Anderson @higherednick.bsky.social Fighting for higher education at the American Council on Education. Former Washpost education writer. If you want to talk shop or pass along a cool idea to improve or promote higher ed, hit me up: nanderson@acenet.edu #HigherEdBuildsAmerica
Korie Dean @koriedean.bsky.social Higher education reporter at The Assembly in NC. Previously at The News & Observer. UNC alum. Reach me at korie@theassemblync.com.
economicsecurity.bsky.social @economicsecurityproject.org Economic Security Project is an ideas advocacy organization that builds economic power for all Americans.
Dan Shafer @danshafer.bsky.social Founding editor, The Recombobulation Area. Exhausted Dad. Milwaukee person. BUCKS FAN.
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Daniel A Collier, PhD @dcollier74.bsky.social Higher Education Policy, Student Basic Needs, Student Loans, and often Shitposter.
HE Policy Scholar: check my shit out here: https://daniel-collier-research.daniel-anthony-colli.chatgpt.site/
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Bruce D. Baker @schoolfinance101.bsky.social Professor, Education Finance & Policy
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School Finance Indicators Database: https://www.schoolfinancedata.org/
Books: https://hep.gse.harvard.edu/author/bruce-d-baker/
David Knight @dsknight99.bsky.social Associate Professor of Education Finance and Policy at the University of Washington College of Education
Jordan H. Davis @jordanhdavis.bsky.social Faculty Development Specialist at Wilmington University. Substacker. Keynote Speaker. Podcaster. Providing breakfast restaurant recommendations.
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CHINEN Ayumu @amch6031.bsky.social Sociologist in JAPAN,
Bourdieu, social class, education etc.
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Jingyun Dai @daijingyun.bsky.social Sociology PhD Candidate at Harvard. Higher education, class and gender inequality, cultural sociology, qualitative methods. Writing on student experiences and aspirations at elite universities in China.
Angela Taylor @angieptaylor.bsky.social Jersey-born. Currently a NC academic. 
Margaret Thornton @maggiethornton.bsky.social Appalachian expat in Philly doing what I can to stop school inequality. Ed leadership/policy assistant prof studying tracking and detracking. Blue skies are mine.
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Pat Hastings @ophastings.bsky.social Sociologist at Colorado State University | Parenting, Inequality, Stratification, Econ Soc, Family Demography, Quantitative Methods, Computational Social Science, whatever seems interesting right now…
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Alex Karp (not the CEO) @autistic.af Sr. Engineering Manager at Slack. Profoundly autistic. Classically-trained pianist, public speaker, avid swing dancer, YA fantasy fiction lover, and a whisky enthusiast. Occasionally funny, usually by accident. More scared of you than you are of me.
Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
Blue Dot in Red State @bluedotin.bsky.social Retired; the blue dot in red state; midwest, volunteering & mentoring undergrads, grads, alums; Indiana Fever Fan. BS, PhD in engineering, MBA in strategy, fifty years employed in automotive electronics; Love Baroque music. Love travel, 2 kids, 7 grands.
Tom Slatter @tomaslatter.bsky.social Interim CEO at social mobility charity The Brokerage
Zahava Stadler @zahavastadler.bsky.social K-12 education policy person with a focus on school finance. Currently Director, Education Funding Equity Initiative @educationwork.newamerica.org. Formerly EdTrust, EdBuild. Parent. Order Muppet. Tired of all this.
Education & Work @educationwork.newamerica.org Every child in every community deserves access to the education and workforce training needed to achieve a future without limits.
In this program at New America, we develop the ideas and communicate the policy changes needed to make it possible.
Julia Barajas @juliabarajas.bsky.social Immigration reporter at NPR-affiliate LAist 89.3 FM • she/her/ella • jbarajas@laist.com
Jamila Michener @povertyscholar.bsky.social Professor @Cornell studying: people power, organizing, poverty, racism, policy (health & housing)|Builder|Leader|Believer
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Matt Barnum @mattbarnum.bsky.social Ideas editor at Chalkbeat
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Bill DeBaun @billdebaun.bsky.social Senior Director of 📊💡at the National College Attainment Network. Jack of some trades, including dot connecting. Devoted FAFSA data dork. The snark is mine; my views could also be yours! Happy to chat, reach out!
Jeremy Barofsky @jbarofsky.bsky.social Associate Research Professor, Better Government Lab, Georgetown University, Interested in the economics of health and poverty; formerly @ideas42 @Brookings and @USCPrice Schaeffer Center, alum of @HarvardChanSPH & @BU
Jeremy Singer @jeremylsinger.bsky.social Assistant professor of education leadership and policy at University of Michigan-Flint @umflintcase.bsky.social. Views are my own. Please excuse typos.
Eddy Conroy @econroy.bsky.social “There’s some good in this world… and it’s worth fighting for”
Running comms for National College Attainment Network, all things higher ed policy and practice.
Plus food and cocktails. Opinions mine.
Mark Lieberman @marklieberman.bsky.social K-12 school finance reporter for @edweek.org and proud member of @edweekunion.bsky.social.
mlieberman@educationweek.org
Signal: malieberman.25
Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social Views and speech are mine alone. Might delete.
Jessica Blake @jessicablake.bsky.social Inside Higher Ed, Policy Reporter | Mizzou Made | Ohio Born & Bred
The Hope Center for Student Basic Needs @hope4college.bsky.social 
Alliance For Higher Education @alliancehighered.bsky.social The Alliance unites higher education to protect: the freedom to teach, think, and learn; the ability to self-govern without partisan influence; and a sector where all students have a fair opportunity to learn and thrive.
Louise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social debt, development, infrastructure, the economics of racial inequality, and the myth of racial progress. I express my own views
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Josh Cowen @joshcowenmi.bsky.social Author; Policy Professor; I write about politics, markets, and schools; Find me at newsletter The Forum: joshcowen.substack.com
Karin Fischer @karinfischer.bsky.social Write. Run. Eat. Drink. Travel. Root for the Nats! The only Newfie you know. Reporting on international ed and the economic, cultural, and political divides around American colleges.
Sandra González-Bailón @sgonzalezbailon.bsky.social Professor of Communication @AnnenbergSchool, UPenn | Director, Center for Information Networks and Democracy | cind.asc.upenn.edu | sandragonzalezbailon.net
Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social NYT opinion writer, Slate Money co-host, Dem messaging consultant, former EIC The New York Observer, Dealbreaker founder and Gawker founding editor. Brooklyn via Bama. Rednexican. Striver with no chill.
https://linktr.ee/elizabethspiers
Lisa Vetere @hecate826.bsky.social 
Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social Professor | 2026-2027 Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholar | Books: Growing God's Family; Addicted to Lust; Taking America Back for God; The Flag & The Cross; Religion for Realists; SOON: Fill the Earth and Subdue It | CV: https://tinyurl.com/mtvxvdfa
Bonnie Stewart @bonstewart.bsky.social online pedagogies, digital/data/multiliteracies, belonging, open ed. Three Fires Confederacy land. they/she.
old-skool cyborg/digital educator in the Haraway tradition: partial, ironic, faithful as blasphemy is faithful.
Derek Gottlieb @derekgottliebphd.com Senior Research Director at School Perceptions
Author of "A Democratic Theory of Educational Accountability,” “Education Reform and the Concept of Good Teaching,” and “Community and Skepticism in Shakespeare’s Comedy”
Co-Host: budgetcommittee.show
Jane Van Galen @janevg.bsky.social Recovering academic now writing about social class and first-gen students, growing carrots, and fighting for democracy.
Writing at https://ghost.edandclass.com/
Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com Professor & department head, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. I study higher ed finance, accountability, and financial aid. Washington Monthly rankings data editor. Dad, gardener, and baker. Personal account.
https://robertkelchen.com/
Audrey Watters @audreywatters.bsky.social I’m just here so I won’t get fined — Marshawn Lynch
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Laura Meckler @laurameckler.bsky.social National Education Writer for the Washington Post and author of DREAM TOWN: Shaker Heights and the Quest for Racial Equity. Reach me at laura.meckler@washpost.com or on Signal: 2024464530
T. Mark Montoya @tmarkm.bsky.social Associate Dean, Prof, & Teaching Fellow @ Northern Arizona Uni | Association for Borderlands Studies Past Prez | Views=Mine | NM/AZ | FirstGen | Margaritas
First-Generation/Working Class Sociologists @fgwc-sociology.bsky.social 
Sociology of Education, ASA journal @soceducation.bsky.social official account for the ASA journal: Sociology of Education
Editors: William Carbonaro and Anna Haskins
https://journals.sagepub.com/home/soe
https://www.asanet.org/publications/journals/sociology-of-education/
Naoki Iso @isnki.bsky.social Sociologist studying inequality, class, immigration, culture and art, also researching history of sociology with focus on Bourdieu's theories. Project Associate Professor at Tokyo University of the Arts.
David Brady @davebrady72.bsky.social Public policy professor, Price School USC @priceschool.usc.edu, father, poverty/social policy/racial inequality/immigration/policymakers, posts do not speak for employer, https://bradydave.wordpress.com
Fabrizio Bernardi @fabriberna.bsky.social Sociologist at UNED (Madrid) working on educational inequalities, social mobility and social demography, EiC of ESR.
https://www.fabriziobernardi.net
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social All things K-12 education policy. Professor @PrincetonSPIA & Sociology; Director, Education Research Section.
James S. Murphy @jamessmurphy.bsky.social Sometimes I write slow, sometimes I write quick. Mostly about college stuff. Weak on crime.
Email: jstephenmurphy@gmail.com
Website: www.jamessmurphy.com
Melissa Osborne @mosbornesoc.bsky.social Associate Prof of Sociology at WWU. Author of Polished: College, Class, and the Burdens of Social Mobility. First-gen. JKCF Alum. 
Jill Barshay @jillbarshay.bsky.social I write about education for The Hechinger Report.
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Ann Owens @annowens.bsky.social Sociologist. Neighborhoods, housing, schools, segregation, policy.
Co-Director, Segregation Tracking Project: http://edopportunity.org/segregation
Co-Editor, City & Community @cicojournal.bsky.social
Beth Macy @bethmacy.bsky.social Candidate for Congress, Author of DOPESICK and PAPER GIRL, thrifting champ, compulsive note-taker, and miner of stories about outsiders & underdogs.
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Jeremy Ney @jeremybney.bsky.social Author of American Inequality, Columbia prof, Former econ policy at Federal Reserve
📝 americaninequality.substack.com
actualham @robinderosa.net public university library director; prof & pedagogue; exhausted by all this, retaining my humanity by hanging out with my dogs. NH, USA.
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The Media, Inequality & Change Center @miccenter.bsky.social The Media, Inequality & Change Center explores the intersections between media, democracy, technology, policy, and social justice.
Daniel Laurison @daniellaurison.bsky.social Sociologist at Swarthmore College, trans man. Wrote Producing Politics & The Class Ceiling & a bunch of articles on class & race & inequality &/or political participation.
DanielLaurison.com = me
WeAreHigherEd.org = standing up for education and democracy
Vinnie Roscigno @roscigno.bsky.social Sociologist of inequality, education, mobility, work, and first generation status at The Ohio State University. Bronx born and First-Gen proud.
https://u.osu.edu/roscigno.1/
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social Went to some colleges, now studying them for a living
Talk equally about ed policy and reality tv
She/Her
Personal account
https://www.dominiquebaker.com/
(I generally don't follow students as they deserve space to blow off steam about people like me)
W. Carson Byrd @wcbyrdphd.bsky.social Sociologist of higher ed inequalities & racism @ Michigan
Probably staring at data instead of writing, but at least there’s a stack of books & articles beside me.
More info: https://wcarsonbyrd.com
Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social Sociologist, UIowa Associate Professor. Author of On Critical Race Theory. Past Vice President, American Sociological Association. AAUP/Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom Fellow & Alliance for Higher Education Fellow. Speaking only for myself.
Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com Sociologist. Author. Professor. Roosevelt Institute Fellow. Expert on families, schools, kids, privilege, and power. Bylines in NYT, WaPo, MSNBC, Atlantic, etc.
"Other countries have social safety nets. The US has women."
www.jessicacalarco.com
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