William Gropper Conversation: Jerusalem Demsas with Josh Kramer
Join internationally-regarded journalist and author Jerusalem Demsas in a conversation with widely-acclaimed cartoonist Josh Kramer exploring the core themes of William Gropper’s work, including labor, freedom, and democracy. Enjoy light refreshments after the program.
IMAGE: William Gropper, It’s About the Future of the World, 1945, Ink, crayon, and opaque white paint on paper, 20 3/4 x 23 1/4 in., Collection of Harvey and Harvey-Ann Ross
About Jerusalem Demsas
Jerusalem Demsas is a staff writer at The Atlantic, where she is an established voice on the housing crisis and local democracy. Her writing spans issues from infrastructure, labor economics, and federalism to race, gender, mobility, and the politics of exclusion. She is the author of On the Housing Crisis: Land, Development, Democracy and is also the host of The Atlantic’s flagship policy podcast Good on Paper. She was recognized for her work in 2023 by the American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) with the ASME Next Award for Journalists Under 30. She was also the recipient of the Citizens Housing and Planning Council’s Insight Award for her work covering the housing crisis. Demsas was a visiting fellow with the Center for Economy and Society at the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University. Prior to writing at The Atlantic, Demsas was a policy journalist at Vox, where she also co-hosted the popular policy podcast The Weeds.
About Josh Kramer
Josh Kramer is a cartoonist, illustrator and journalist living in Northeast Washington, DC. His art and writing, often focused on cities and transportation, have appeared in The Atlantic, The Guardian, and NPR. He was a 2017 Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan and has a Masters in cartooning from the Center for Cartoon Studies. Josh specializes in nonfiction comics narratives and drawn infographics. He is Head of Editorial for New_ Public, a nonprofit tech R&D lab focused on reimagining social media.
