Ben Palmquist is the program director of Health Care and Economic Democracy at Partners for Dignity & Rights (formerly NESRI), where he supports grassroots campaigns for universal, publicly financed healthcare, democratization of the economy, and the organization’s New Social Contract project. He previously worked with the Urban Justice Center, Center for Urban Pedagogy, Hester Street Collaborative, Food Chain Workers Alliance, Restaurant Opportunities Center-United, DataCenter, Interpretive Media Laboratory, and Local Initiatives Support Corporation, among others. He tweets at @benpalmquist.