Mary O’Hara
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International Columnist of the Year 2020: Southern California Journalism Awards
Mary O’Hara is an award-winning journalist, producer and author specialising in social policy and social justice. She freelances across a number of publications and platforms including The Guardian. Most recently she was named ‘Best Foreign Columnist’ 2020, at the Southern California Journalism Awards for her Guardian column, Lesson From America. She is the producer and director of the documentary short, Beyond the Railings and an executive consulting producer on the podcast Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness. She is the founder of the anti-poverty initiative, Project Twist-It.
Mary is the author of the bestselling book Austerity Bites: A Journey to the Sharp End of Cuts in the UK and a contributor to the book, The Violence of Austerity and to others including Council Skies by the artist, Pete McKee and Vulnerable Consumers and the Law, edited by Christine Riefa and Severine Saintier, published by Routledge (2021).
In 2019 Mary was an Alistair Cooke Fulbright Scholar at UC Berkeley. She is on the board of the charity, Arts Emergency, is the founder and chair of the David Nobbs Memorial Trust and is a fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts.
Follow her on Twitter @maryohara1 | Mary’s website is maryohara.eu
Austerity Bites
Find out more about Mary’s book Austerity Bites >
“This book is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand the great human cost of austerity. Read it, get angry and get active.”
“Austerity Bites should be required reading for every MP, peer, councillor, civil servant and commentator. The fury and sense of powerlessness that so many people feel at government policy beam out of every page.”
More of Mary’s work
Read > Mary’s writing for the Guardian at – https://www.theguardian.com/profile/maryohara
Read > Mary’s foreword for Pete McKee's book Council Skies – https://www.petemckee.com/news/petes-new-book-council-skies
Read > Mary’s opening chapter for the book, The Violence of Austerity –https://www.plutobooks.com/9781786800633/the-violence-of-austerity/