Tammy is a contributing opinion writer at The New York Times, a co-host of the Time to Say Goodbye podcast, and a freelance magazine reporter for outlets including The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, Columbia Journalism Review, and The Nation. She previously worked as a legal-services attorney and has been active in the labor movement. In the fall of 2020, she will be the Distinguished T. Anthony Pollner Professor at the University of Montana School of Journalism.