If she were a Catholic saint, which is hilarious because she's a staunch atheist, we would call her Our Lady of Labor. Alex Press is a staff writer at Jacobin Magazine, covering working class politics, with a particular focus on labor and unions, amidst the current spate of labor strikes ongoing in the US. She brings an interesting lens to her coverage as someone who has had to navigate both standing up and sitting down jobs, as a teen and adult. Oh, and she actually was a union organizer at one point.

But before all of that, she was an elite gymnast.

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