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Generation Debt, and other writing by Anya Kamenetz
DIY U: Buy it Now!
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About The Author
My new book, DIY U:Edupunks, Edupreneurs and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education (buy it here), will be published by Chelsea Green in April 2010. I'm a staff writer for Fast Company Magazine and the author of the book Generation Debt. I've written Generation Debt columns for the Village Voice and as a featured Yahoo! Finance expert. I've also written for publications ranging from the New York Times to ReadyMade magazine and Mental Floss.
I live in Brooklyn with a phenomenal husband and an amazing cat.
I travel and speak fairly often. Upcoming dates are:
3/12-3/16 South By Southwest Interactive festival
4/11 Vox Pop bookstore NYC
4/21 Bluestockings Radical Books, NYC
5/4 Octavia Books, New Orleans
5/17-5/18 Carter Center, Atlanta; TEDx Atlanta conference
6/7-6/10 Sustainable Brands conference, Monterrey, CA
Contact Keppler Speakers if you want me to come to your town!
Email me at a kamenetz at fastcompany dot com.
I live in Brooklyn with a phenomenal husband and an amazing cat.
I travel and speak fairly often. Upcoming dates are:
3/12-3/16 South By Southwest Interactive festival
4/11 Vox Pop bookstore NYC
4/21 Bluestockings Radical Books, NYC
5/4 Octavia Books, New Orleans
5/17-5/18 Carter Center, Atlanta; TEDx Atlanta conference
6/7-6/10 Sustainable Brands conference, Monterrey, CA
Contact Keppler Speakers if you want me to come to your town!
Email me at a kamenetz at fastcompany dot com.
Good Links
- American Prospect Blog
- Barbara Ehrenreich
- BlogHer Personal Finance
- Brazen Careerist
- Campus Progress
- Credit Slips (Elizabeth Warren, etc)
- Debt Bloggers
- Employee Evolution
- Entitlements Research
- Freelancers Union
- Gen Y Financial Freedom
- Generation Debt Dot Org
- Higher Ed Watch
- Inside Higher Ed
- Journey to Financial Freedom
- Student Loan Justice
- US PIRGs Higher Ed
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- Q...
- Great Review/Commentary of Gendebt in the Guardian UK
- 40,000-strong LA School Walkout Protesting Immigra...
- Sallie Mae: "March Toward Monopoly"
- Good News from NY State
- The Illegal Dilemma
- Wow! Thanks for your Comments!
- Author Interview on Slushpile.net
- Le McJob
- Want to Be on TV?
- Hollywood Squares
- Must Read Column on Sallie Mae
- Best Job Market in 5 Years for College Grads
- State Support for Higher Ed at 25-Year Low
- Win a Trip to East Africa
- Students Confront Higher Ed Policy Advisors
- Worse off than our parents, sez Harvard prof
- On the Air
- Personal Finance Pitfalls
- Gen Debt France
- Some Cuts to Ed Budget Restored
- Congress Votes to Raise the Debt
- "Maxed Out" Credit Card Doc
- "So How Scared Should We Be?"
- Tart Commentary from Anchorage, Alaska
- K-16
- New Ad Campaign on Social Value of College
- Many Jobs Lack Benefits to Cut...
- LA Times Review
- Consolidate Student Loans by 6/30!
- The Kalamazoo Promise
- Send 'Em Back to Work
- To the Lobbyists
- 2 Letters from This Morning's Inbox
- SL Consolidation= Gross Monopoly
- Loan Forgiveness Programs
- Some Recent Coverage
- Law Students Sue UC for Raising Tuition...
- Great Article about Jobs, Skills, and Global Markets
- Live Chat Monday March 6!
- 2 new interviewshttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link...
- Thoughtful Review in SF Chronicle
- DC Public Affairs Radio
- Moneypants Interview
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1 comment:
Excellent book review. Just finished "Generation Debt" and found it a very powerful read. I stayed up way too late but couldn't put it down. A lot has obviously changed since I was in college in the '80s. For example, no one I knew had a credit card in college back then. The reviewer's comments are right on point though. As important and thoughtful as the book is, an alternate title of "Generation Debt: Why Now is a Terrible Time to be Dumb" popped into my mind, particularly with acquiring a credit card when you don't yet even have a job as well as one's choice of a major.
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