Deirdre English Deirdre English (born in 1948) is the former editor of Mother Jones and author of numerous articles for national publications and television documentaries. _She_ has taught at the State University of New York and currently teaches at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, where she is a faculty mentor at the Center for the Study of the Working Family at the Graduate School of Sociology. <sep>, Pronoun: She