About Michael Isaacson
Research. Content Production.
Who Is Michael?
Michael Isaacson is a researcher and content producer with two master’s degrees in economics and over 5 years of experience in marketing content production. He has hosted a podcast, talked on panels, and published both journalistic and academic work.
Through his advocacy and activism, he demonstrates his commitment to social justice. In his free time, he occupies a volunteer role as the director of communications for the grassroots prison justice organization Justice 4 Demi. He is also a co-founder of Smash Racism DC and was involved in the Good Jobs Nation campaign.
Experience
Michael has been publishing for the web since he was a teenager, beginning with a personal blog, learning the ropes of social media, and occupying various writing and marketing positions through his educational and professional career.
Jumpfactor Marketing
Michael was most recently employed as a content manager at Jumpfactor Marketing, an inbound digital marketing firm based in Toronto, Canada from 2021-2023. In his time there, he learned the finer points of business-to-business marketing, producing blog posts, service pages, CTAs, email campaigns, white papers, and ad copy for Facebook, LinkedIn, and Google Search. Michael
managed content for up to 26 clients at a time with industries ranging from managed IT to financial services, medical device manufacturing, logistics, cybersecurity, and more.
JEI Self-Learning Systems
Michael spent 2019 as a staff writer at the New Jersey headquarters of JEI Self-Learning Systems, a globally franchised provider of supplementary education. While working for JEI, he wrote everything that needed to be written including blog posts, technical manuals, company wide emails, speeches, market research reports, exams, social media copy, and more. Sometimes Michael’s duties extended beyond writing, such as grading exams for the company’s annual math competition.
Justice 4 Demi
Since 2020, Michael has been working with grassroots prison justice organization Justice 4 Demi, establishing the role of director of communications for himself. In his time with the organization, he has overseen two website overhauls, relayed communications from inmates to various points of contact, issued press releases, and even organized a protest. He maintains friendly relations with journalists who have done several stories on the inmates he assists.
Freelance Copywriting
Toward the middle of 2019, Michael began supplementing his income with freelance copywriting. He has written copy for personal injury law firm Morgan & Morgan, business guru Renae Christine, and A/V blog The Home Theater DIY. He also did freelance work for the New Hampshire marketing firm Millennium Agency.
Journalism
Michael is an accomplished journalist, writing explainers, op eds, and reported pieces since 2015. He has been published in ThinkProgress, Truthout, Jewish Currents, Waging Nonviolence, and elsewhere. He has covered labor politics and the far right and even had one of his pieces translated into German.
Education
Michael’s background in economics makes him a strong writer, researcher, and mathematician. With education in history and philosophy, Michael takes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding political economy.
New School for Social Research
Michael received an M.Phil. in economics from The New School for Social Research in 2018, having completed all coursework and qualifying exams requisite for a PhD. During his time there, he assumed the role of blog editor of the graduate student-run journal The New School Economic Review. He also took courses in historiography and historical methodology.
Howard University
In 2013, Michael received an M.A. in economics from Howard University with a concentration in monetary and fiscal economics. During his time there, he was a research associate at the Center for Urban Progress and an adjunct professor for undergraduate students. He taught classes in macroeconomics, statistics, and microeconomics.
University of Mary Washington
Michael graduated with a double B.S. in economics and philosophy in 2010 from the University of Mary Washington. During his time there, he was active in student life, becoming a student senator and leading a public art collective. Among his accomplishments is negotiating with various administrative offices to arrange for a 5-hour, 2-stage benefit concert and comedy show with no budget.
Research Interests
Michael has been researching fascism and the far right since 2011. He is currently working on a book about the only nazi labor union to exist in the United States. Despite this organization appearing to have been involved in nearly every form of racial unrest in Detroit in the 1930s and 40s, there has been no historical research done on them. For this project, Michael has been trawling the archives, scouring contemporary books, and searching periodicals for bits and pieces of the history of this obscure group.