Laura Flanders

Laura Flanders is an independent broadcast journalist and creator of The Laura Flanders Show. This TV and radio program, which airs weekly on KCET/LinkTV, FreeSpeech TV, CUNYTV, and Flanders's YouTube channel, examines political and social alternatives and seeks to raise radical spirits through interviews with people trying to shift power dynamics in politics, economics, and the arts. As a journalist, Flanders focuses on US foreign policy and women's, LGBTQ, and economic issues.

She is the author of six books, including the best-selling Bushwomen: Tales of a Cynical Species (2004). For the past few years she has reported on insurgent electoral movements in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Europe.