Deirdre English

Deirdre has been an active and passionate supporter of Home Away from the beginning or, as she likes to say, “before we had electricity at the Beach House.” Deirdre received her Masters in Social Welfare from the State University of New York at Stoney Brook. She writes, and is an editor and journalist who has worked in public television and public interest journalism.

Deirdre is the former editor of Mother Jones Magazine and currently the Director of the Felker Magazine Center at the Graduate School of Journalism, UC Berkeley.