Kim Kelly

Kim Kelly is a labor reporter for In These Times magazine and has been a regular labor columnist for Teen Vogue since 2018. Her writing on labor, class, politics, disability, and culture has appeared in The Nation , The Washington Post , The New York Times , The Baffler , The New Republic , Rolling Stone , Esquire , and many others. Kelly has also worked as a video correspondent for More Perfect Union , The Real News Network , and Means TV . Previously, she was the heavy metal editor at Noisey,...See more

Kim Kelly is a labor reporter for In These Times magazine and has been a regular labor columnist for Teen Vogue since 2018. Her writing on labor, class, politics, disability, and culture has appeared in The Nation , The Washington Post , The New York Times , The Baffler , The New Republic , Rolling Stone , Esquire , and many others. Kelly has also worked as a video correspondent for More Perfect Union , The Real News Network , and Means TV . Previously, she was the heavy metal editor at Noisey, Vice 's music vertical, and helped organize the Vice union. A third-generation union member, she served three terms as an elected councilperson for the Writers Guild of America, East Council. Her first book, Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor , was published in 2022. She was born in the heart of the South Jersey Pine Barrens and currently lives in Philadelphia with a hard-workin' man, a couple of taxidermy bears, and way too many books. See less