Susie Cagle is a 2015-2016 John S. Knight Journalism fellow at Stanford, where she researches labor shifts, employment trends, and sustainable cooperative models to support freelance workers in media and other industries. She is a columnist at Pacific Standard magazine, and a frequent contributor of journalism to other outlets such as the Guardian, Forbes, Next City, Aeon, and others. She is currently working on an illustrated book about boom and bust economics in California.