Rachel Sherman is a professor of sociology at the New School who studies how inequality is reproduced, justified, and challenged. She is the author of Class Acts: Service and Inequality in Luxury Hotels and Uneasy Street: The Anxieties of Affluence. She is completing Class Traitors, a look at wealthy progressives who—in support of movements for democracy and social justice—are organizing their class, backing tax-the-rich policies and pushing redistribution over accumulation. She previewed this work in her New York Times article “The Rich Kid Revolutionaries.” Sherman holds a PhD in sociology and lives in Brooklyn.