Heather McGhee

Heather C. McGhee is President of Dēmos. She was previously the Vice President of Policy and Outreach. She is a frequent writer, speaker and media commentator on issues of democracy reform, economic opportunity, racial equity and financial regulation. She is also a regular guest on MSNBC, Fox News and CNN.  Her opinions, writing and research have appeared in numerous outlets, including the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, National Public Radio, the Washington Post, and the New York Times.  She is the co-author of a chapter on retirement insecurity in the book Inequality Matters: The Growing Economic Divide in America and its Poisonous Consequences. She holds a B.A. in American Studies from Yale University and a J.D. from the University of California at Berkeley School of Law.