Lily Geismer is an associate professor of history at Claremont McKenna College.
A native of Massachusetts, Geismer currently resides in Los Angeles..
Her work has appeared in The New York Times , Washington Post , New Republic , Jacobin , and Dissent and on NPR and other podcasts.
She is the author of L eft Behind: How the Democrats Failed to Solve Inequality and Don\'t Blame Us: Suburban Liberals and the Transformation of the Democratic Party.
She researches and teaches about recent political and urban history in the United States with a focus on liberalism and the Democratic Party.
Lily Geismer is an associate professor of history at Claremont McKenna College