We're happy to announce the addition of three new members to our editorial board:

  Barbara Ehrenreich: Author, most recently, of Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy and of the bestselling Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, Ehrenreich, less famously, holds a PhD in biology. She's honorary co-chair of Democratic Socialists of America and founder of United Professionals, an organization of white-collar workers.

  Pedro Antonio Noguera: A professor at the Steinhardt School of Education at New York University, Noguera has also taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the University of California, Berkeley. An urban sociologist with a special interest in how big-city schools are influenced by social and economic conditions, he directs NYU's Metropolitan Center for Urban Education.

  Andrea Batista Schlesinger: As executive director of the Drum Major Institute for Public Policy, a progressive New York think tank, Schlesinger has made herself a force for injecting the voices of young people into the democratic conversation. Among the policy studies DMI has released is one on the effects of Congressional votes and immigration policies on the middle class.

We also welcome a new contributing editor:

Gary Younge: Our "Beneath the Radar" columnist and a frequent contributor, Gary is a US correspondent of the Guardian, in London. He is the author of Stranger in a Strange Land: Encounters in the Disunited States and No Place Like Home: A Black Briton's Journey Through the American South.