Samantha is a 23 year old graduate student currently studying Rural-Political Sociology and Community Development online, with undergraduate degrees in Sociology and Marketing and almost a full degree in Economics through North Dakota State University. She is currently applying into Ph.D. programs out in Boston, MA where she hopes to continue her graduate work on a larger scale. In her free time, she enjoys bodybuilding, reading philosophy and political or sociological works, cooking, and figure skating. Her list of recommended books is: All About Love - bell hooks American Poison - Eduardo Porter Class Struggle Unionism - Joe Burns Hope in the Dark - Rebecca Solnit Labor Rising - Katz & Greenwald Nervous States - William Davies Religion and the Rise of Capitalism - Ben Friedman See No Stranger - Valarie Kaur The Ethics of Ambiguity - Simone de Beauvoir The Light We Give - Simran Jeet Singh The Melancholia of Class - Cynthia Cruz The New Jim Crowe - Michelle Alexander The Shock Doctrine - Naomi Klien The Tyranny of Merit - Michael J. Sandel

visit me at: writers.work/samanthagould