Laura Flanders Académica Asociada

Our people — Associate

Laura Flanders es presentadora y directora ejecutiva del Laura Flanders Show, un programa sindicado de radio y televisión que informa sobre modelos de cambio de poder en la vida real en el ámbito de las artes, la economía y la gobernanza en Estados Unidos y el mundo.

Twitter: LFShow (external link)

Es colaboradora en la revista Nation, donde escribe sobre la organización de los movimientos sociales y la economía del “próximo sistema”. Es autora de varias publicaciones y beneficiaria de la beca Cultural Freedom de la Fundación Lannan, por su labor de periodismo independiente y promoción de los medios de comunicación públicos.

Laura es administradora fiduciaria de The Democracy Collaborative e investigadora asociada del Institute for Policy Studies. En 2019, recibió el premio Izzy de excelencia en periodismo independiente y el premio Pat Micthell Lifetime Achievement Award del Women's Media Center por promover la visibilidad de las mujeres y niñas en los medios de comunicación. Su programa de vanguardia se transmite cada semana a través de cientos de emisoras de radios de PBS en Estados Unidos y está disponible en YouTube. También se puede escuchar en formato de podcast en lauraflanders.org. @GRITlaura, @theLFShow.

Latest work

Power, empire and US elections: internationalist perspectives Webinar recording

Authoritarianism
Four activist scholars reflect on the 2020 US elections. The attention to Trump has distracted from Biden's agenda. How will his administration reshape geopolitics and global governance, for poverty and war, for migration and climate, for democracy and tyranny around the world? What will the elections mean for the current set of authoritarian rulers around the world, and what will they mean for progressive forces worldwide? What will be the challenges and opportunities for campaigns committed to social and environmental justice?
Video by

Laura Flanders

Phyllis Bennis

Walden Bello

Cathy Feingold

Bill Fletcher, Jr.
Publication date: 10 November 2020
The Future Is Public: Special Report from Amsterdam

Remunicipalisation

From Austria to Chile, Lagos to London, people are demanding policies that democratize economies and keep public resources in public hands. In just the last decade, more than 2,400 cities in 58 countries have brought privatized resources back under public control. Laura Flanders reports from Amsterdam at The Future is Public, a conference co-hosted by TNI that brings together hundreds of organizers, scholars, and government officials who are working to democratize their municipal and national economies.

Multi-media by

Laura Flanders

Publication date: 13 February 2020
Transformative Cities: Crisis and Opportunity

New Politics

Cities accumulate capital, people, aspirations, and power. But, whose power? Whose aspirations? How can we find in the city a place of possibility? Laura Flanders introduces TNI's Transformative Cities programme in Amsterdam during June 2018.

Multi-media by

Laura Flanders

Publication date: 29 November 2018