I’ve met Hilda Solis, and I can say that she’s very smart and committed to an issue dear to my own heart: the intersection of feminism and labor rights. She has highlighted the way women of color are disproportionately affected by the wage gap between men and women, writing, “Latinas earn on average 57 cents to every dollar that a man earns. African-American women earn just 68 cents to every dollar that a man earns.” That is compared to 77 cents on the male dollar for all women.

We’ll have more on Solis later from our resident labor expert, Harold Meyerson.

—Dana Goldstein

Dana Goldstein, a former associate editor and writer at the Prospect, comes from a family of public-school educators. She received the Spencer Fellowship in Education Journalism, a Schwarz Fellowship at the New America Foundation, and a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellowship at the Nation Institute. Her journalism is regularly featured in Slate, The Atlantic, The Nation, The Daily Beast, and other publications, and she is a staff writer at the Marshall Project.