Elizabeth Wilkins
@elizabethwwilkins.bsky.social
President, Roosevelt Institute, Roosevelt Forward. Proud Biden FTC, WH and DC AG alum. All views are my own.
November 24, 2025 at 4:14 PM
This year’s data on first time homebuyers is only worse. No wonder the student I talked to didn’t have any hope of owning a home. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/r...
November 6, 2025 at 2:46 PM
This year’s data on first time homebuyers is only worse. No wonder the student I talked to didn’t have any hope of owning a home. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/r...
Keyontay is an OG Roosevelt student network founder. She also works for the City of Detroit, and she told me how private equity firm RealToken is buying up homes, refusing to fix them, and serving eviction notices. 2/
October 23, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Keyontay is an OG Roosevelt student network founder. She also works for the City of Detroit, and she told me how private equity firm RealToken is buying up homes, refusing to fix them, and serving eviction notices. 2/
Spent yesterday at UMich talking to law students and undergrads about what the economy looks like to them, what kind of lives they want to lead, and what barriers they see to creating that life. What I heard was both heartbreaking and hopeful. 1/
October 23, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Spent yesterday at UMich talking to law students and undergrads about what the economy looks like to them, what kind of lives they want to lead, and what barriers they see to creating that life. What I heard was both heartbreaking and hopeful. 1/
And look who I found! 17 years ago Derek Dobies was an intern I stuck in a closet in Detroit to do work for the '08 Obama campaign. Now he's CoS for the MI AFL-CIO. We're a powerful network of changemakers!
October 23, 2025 at 11:43 AM
And look who I found! 17 years ago Derek Dobies was an intern I stuck in a closet in Detroit to do work for the '08 Obama campaign. Now he's CoS for the MI AFL-CIO. We're a powerful network of changemakers!
Lunch today with policymakers from across Michigan made it clear to me that we need different kinds of leader in this moment: Ones who listen deeply, act boldly and creatively, aren’t afraid to talk across difference and make mistakes in order to be of service.
October 23, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Lunch today with policymakers from across Michigan made it clear to me that we need different kinds of leader in this moment: Ones who listen deeply, act boldly and creatively, aren’t afraid to talk across difference and make mistakes in order to be of service.
Outtake: People told me no one wanted to see Hermie the hermit crab. But he wanted his 15 minutes of fame.
October 22, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Outtake: People told me no one wanted to see Hermie the hermit crab. But he wanted his 15 minutes of fame.
I'm off to Michigan for our first Roosevelt on the Road stop, with one big Q: what does a good life look like to you?
October 22, 2025 at 10:26 AM
I'm off to Michigan for our first Roosevelt on the Road stop, with one big Q: what does a good life look like to you?
Juneteenth is about celebrating freedom and remembering the massive cruelty that came before. In contemplating the legacy of slavery, let us understand what obligations that history places on us today:
June 19, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Juneteenth is about celebrating freedom and remembering the massive cruelty that came before. In contemplating the legacy of slavery, let us understand what obligations that history places on us today:
He goes through the evidence that slavery was in fact brutally profitable. I couldn't agree with this assessment more:
June 19, 2025 at 3:05 PM
He goes through the evidence that slavery was in fact brutally profitable. I couldn't agree with this assessment more:
The only thing better than talking about what the New Deal order can teach us about where we need to go now is doing so in style.
April 7, 2025 at 2:31 PM
The only thing better than talking about what the New Deal order can teach us about where we need to go now is doing so in style.
50+ years ago, my father won the Pulitzer with @washingtonpost.com for speaking truth to power. My heart breaks imagining what he would think now. We need brave media institutions, unbowed by corporate influence, to carry on the fight.
www.washingtonpost.com/national/rog...
www.washingtonpost.com/national/rog...
March 10, 2025 at 3:18 PM
50+ years ago, my father won the Pulitzer with @washingtonpost.com for speaking truth to power. My heart breaks imagining what he would think now. We need brave media institutions, unbowed by corporate influence, to carry on the fight.
www.washingtonpost.com/national/rog...
www.washingtonpost.com/national/rog...