Allison LaFave

A veritable tumbleweed, Allison grew up in South Dakota and graduated from Harvard College in 2010 with a B.A. in Comparative Religion. Her postgrad employment has run the gamut of super-liberal jobs, including legal assistant to a police misconduct lawyer; third grade teacher in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn; and jack-of-all-trades at an education nonprofit. Allison's first big concert was Willie Nelson (take that for what it's worth), and she prides herself on her ability to make wicked mix CDs à la 1993. When she's not aggressively Googling panda videos, Allison is asserting the superiority of South Dakota over North Dakota. (Naturally.)

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Shira Tarrant, "Unconventional Feminist," Takes On the Politics Of Porn

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5 Reasons to Help Fight Chicago School Closures

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Sequestration is Hitting Native Americans the Hardest

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Aaron Swartz Said Elite Schools Are Intellectually Dead: He's Wrong

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VAWA 2013: House Must Reauthorize to Protect Native Women

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College Selection: How to Pick the Best School For You

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Student Loan Debt in the U.S. Approaches $1,000,000,000,000

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Romney Loves Teachers: What Teacher Evaluations and Tests Really Mean for American Teachers

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George McGovern: Remembering the Politician who Won South Dakotans Over by a Landslide