Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow is a contributing editor at Dissent and a writer in residence at UC Irvine's Forum for the Academy and the Public. Her writing has appeared in Slate, The Nation, The New York Times Book Review, and Boston Review, among other publications. She was previously a contributing writer for the Boston Globe’s Ideas section and a columnist for Next City, an online urban affairs magazine. Becca lives in Southern California with her husband and daughter.