Ambria Taylor lives and works in the Bridgeport neighborhood of Chicago. She teaches science to middle school kids, is a member of CTU Local 1, and is the political education coordinator for the Chicago branch of Democratic Socialists of America.
A strange and beautiful game with a socialist foundation, Disco Elysium’s success seemed like a miracle. When company shareholders eventually fired its creators and stole their work, that was more familiar — and proved why creative workers need unions too.
Ambria Taylor, a socialist teacher from a working-class background, is running for Chicago City Council. In a ward long known as a stronghold for conservative Democratic machine politics, she says she hopes to usher in a new era of participatory governance.