Ted Fertik is a Ph.D. candidate in history at Yale University. From 2010-2014 he was a leader of the Graduate Employees and Students Organization (GESO) and from 2008-2010 he was an organizer with the Working Families Party in New York and Oregon.

Disclaimer: Cora Edwards, the wife of Transformation editor Michael Edwards, was elected on a Working Families/Democrat ticket to the Sullivan County Legislature in upstate New York in November 2011.