Katie Kirchner

Probably talking about social justice, pop culture, or my cat. Roosevelter - @RooseveltInst & @RooseveltFwd - but tweets are my own.

[Katie Kirchner @kkirch92]

Check out my first piece in @TeenVogue about Eleanor Roosevelt: "With the power that we each hold as activists, researchers, or students, it is our responsibility to show up unapologetically and fight, uncompromisingly, for the future we believe in." ✊

https://t.co/SaR726XWc0

[Katie Kirchner @kkirch92]

I think this is so important to understand about what’s happening in NYC!

And I would add that taking seriously the ideas, aspirations, and energy of young people is part of what helped strengthen this political coalition across class and radical divides.

[Elizabeth Wilkins @ewwilkins]

Last night showed the alternative. A multiracial coalition, men and women, electing candidates who ran on the cost of living and worker power, in diverse districts, over establishment incumbents.

Not class versus race. Both, at once. 8/

[Rachel Janfaza @racheljanfaza]

Gen Z 1.0: school walkouts against gun violence
Gen Z 2.0: school walkouts against ICE

Photos: longfellow_nokomis_messenger

[Elizabeth Wilkins @ewwilkins]

To see the president bear hugging @ZohranKMamdani's priorities shows what we all know—that FDR-style economic populism, and making government deliver for people, is good policy and wildly popular.

[Alex Jacquez @AlexSJacquez]

Trump claims that Thanksgiving prices are down this year. A new report from @Groundwork, @TCFdotorg and @AFTunion using pricing data from grocery stores in November finds prices for Turkey Day staples on the rise--and families are cutting back to afford them.

[Elizabeth Wilkins @ewwilkins]

This story is honestly insane. Faraway investors buying up Detroit homes and turning them into crypto tokens; letting housing fall into disrepair, and evicting residents. This is what happens in an extraction economy.

[Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinst]

The Roosevelt Institute was honored to present
@TeenVogue with the 2025 Freedom of Speech Medal because their team understood that freedom is about both speaking truth to power and the capacity to build power.

Read our full statement: https://t.co/n2R77sd03Z

[Aastha पास्ता @aasthauprety]

"Isn’t empathy for that pain, and honesty about its scale, the bare minimum we should expect from our leaders? That’s the spirit that should guide how progressive institutions and leaders approach policy: starting from what is necessary, not what polls as popular."

[Roosevelt Forward @RooseveltFwd]

Young progressives aren’t “the future”—they’re the moral compass of the present.

Ignoring them isn’t just shortsighted. It’s a threat to progress.

This week’s #FiresideStacks🔥 is a wake-up call from @kkirch92.

https://t.co/3j2AQdkBpV

[Katie Kirchner @kkirch92]

Follow along live with us over on Instagram! I’ll be doing my best to bring you along over the next 48 hours: https://t.co/22m4v9zX1D

[Elizabeth Wilkins @ewwilkins]

I want to hear from students, local leaders, state policymakers what people want for their families and crave from their communities, in their policy and leadership. What kind of life to people want to lead, and how can we support that? Will let you know what I find out!

[Hannah Groch-Begley @grochbegley]

Are you currently in a humanities graduate degree program, or know someone who is? Are you/they interested in learning about public policy as a post-grad career path? Then you should check out the new PAID, REMOTE internship program Roosevelt is launching (link below)

[Elizabeth Wilkins @ewwilkins]

Moments of crisis are also moments of opportunity. If we want to beat authoritarianism and usher in a new political order of shared power and prosperity, we need our policy prescriptions to be rooted in people’s lives experiences and we need to develop those solutions together.

[Rohit Chopra @ChopraUSA]

The President's move to fire a sitting Federal Reserve Governor is part of a concerted effort to transform independent watchdogs into obedient lapdogs that do as they’re told. https://t.co/kRWEv8nrTS

[Elizabeth Wilkins @ewwilkins]

The move to fire Lisa Cook tonight is pure intimidation politics. And in this case, intimidation will literally cost us as financial markets price in a cowed central bank. https://t.co/a9qMxXOawh

[Elizabeth Wilkins @ewwilkins]

It’s an American tradition for bullies and cheats to use race and identity to divide us. @ZohranKMamdani eloquently shows us how not to let that happen: How to keep our eyes on the prize of winning economic power and security for all of us. Take heed.

[Pop Crave @PopCrave]

The University of Michigan has canceled its undercover surveillance contracts after The Guardian published a story revealing private investigators trailing and recording pro-Palestinian campus groups.

[Rachel Janfaza @racheljanfaza]

Holding a virtual listening session for high school & college grads Monday night, June 2, at 7pm et.

Dm if you’re interested in joining!

Pls share with any 2025 grads 🎓🙏🏻

[Nonprofit Quarterly @npquarterly]

Can young people in the United States be at the center of a movement for multiracial democracy? Yes, but only if there is investment in long-term political infrastructure. https://t.co/kueUE4fHHH @kkirch92 @rooseveltinst @RooseveltFwd

[Matt Hughes @matthughes212]

Big news here at @rooseveltinst. And with Social Security and our social compact in grave danger, who better than @paulkrugman + @ewwilkins to remind everyone:

Facts matter. And the fact is, taking care of society's most vulnerable is both a moral obligation AND good economics.

[Matt Hughes @matthughes212]

What the New Deal taught us: When authoritarianism knocks on your door, your best defense is a bigger imagination.

Democracy is strongest when it's holding capitalism to account & shaping markets that work for everyone, as @ewwilkins highlighted at today's @PatrioticMills event

[Kate Aronoff @KateAronoff]

Happy Liberation Day to all who celebrate