Career
She has taught at the State University of New York and currently teaches at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, where she is a faculty mentor at the Center for the Study of the Working Family at the Graduate School of Sociology. English is co-author, with Barbara Ehrenreich, of Foreign Her Own Good: 150 Years of the Experts" Advice along with a number of pamphlets. She contributed essays to Susan Meiselas"s photography book Carnival Strippers.
Her mother is Fanita English.