Each of our contributors passionately specialize in environmental, social justice and sustainability, and have worked hard for years to build hope for the future.
Natalie Cherot, PhD, is a Ventura, California-based writer, researcher and social scientist. She is currently writing a book about wrongful conviction.
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Henry Cherry lives in Hollywood, California. He works as a teacher and a journalist. You can see more of his work here.
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Jennifer Clement is President Emerita of PEN International and the only woman to hold the office of President (2015-2021) since the organization was founded in 1921. Clement is the author the novels A True Story Based on Lies, The Poison That Fascinates, Prayers for the Stolen and Gun Love as well as several poetry books. Clement also wrote the acclaimed memoir Widow Basquiat on New York City in the early 1980’s and the painter Jean-Michel Basquiat.
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Benedict Cosgrove was managing editor for the pioneering websites Netizen and FEED, and helped launch the National Magazine Award–winning photography site, LIFE.com. He is the editor of two anthologies, Covering the Bases and Gluttony, and has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Columbia Journalism Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Daily Beast, and others. He lives with his family in New York City. For more, visit his website.
Daniel Donaghy is the author of five poetry collections, most recently Somerset, which won the Paterson Poetry Prize. He was awarded the 2022 Auburn Witness Poetry Prize for his poem about the Tulsa Race Massacre, “Tulsa Triptych.” His creative non-fiction essay “Fire,” first published in The Sun, was named a Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2024.
An award-winning journalist, writer, and editor, Joe Donnelly is currently Editor-in-Chief of Red Canary Magazine and Visiting Assistant Professor of English and Journalism at Whittier College. He is the author of the acclaimed collections L.A. Man: Profiles from a Big City and a Small World and So Cal: Dispatches from the End of the World. His latest book, God of Sperm: Cappy Rothman's Life In Conception (Rare Bird Books), tells the story of how the son of a notorious mafiosa became one of the most consequential fertility doctors in history.
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Angélica Escobar is a junior in college and currently the assistant Opinions editor at The Quaker Campus, an online newsletter produced by Whittier College students since 1914 with article uploaded daily.
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Brianne Estrada is a graphic designer who finds fulfillment in creating designs that educate the public about environmental and social issues. In addition to design, she expresses this passion for these topics through other creative outlets. She works with small businesses, influencers and nonprofits. For more information about her work, check out her website bestraddesign.com
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Mary Fitzpatrick’s poems have been finalists for the Joy Harjo Poetry Prize and the Slapering Hol Chapbook Award; short-listed for the Fish Publishing Prize; featured in Mississippi Review, Atlanta Review and North American Review as contest finalists; and published in such journals as Agenda (UK), Briar Cliff Review, Cholla Needles, Hunger Mountain, International Literary Quarterly (InterLitQ), Miramar, The Paterson Review, Pratik, Terrain.org plus ten anthologies. A graduate of UC Santa Cruz with an MFA from UMass Amherst, she is a fourth-generation Angeleno who lives in Pasadena and feels at home in Ireland.
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Dina Gachman is a Pulitzer Center Grantee and a frequent contributor to the New York Times, Texas Monthly, Teen Vogue, Vox and more. She’s a New York Times bestselling ghostwriter, and her first book, BROKENOMICS, was a satiric exploration of the economic divide. Her second book, So Sorry For Your Loss: How I Learned To Live With Grief, and Other Grave Concerns, will be published by Union Square & Co. in April 2023. She lives near Austin with her husband and son.
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We publish deeply reported journalism focusing on environmental, sustainability and social justice issues. Our goal is to bring you difference-making work that provokes discussions, inspires reflection and speaks to the times with stories that prove timeless.
PUBLISHER
Tracy McCartney
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Joe Donnelly
MANAGING EDITOR
Tori O’Campo
CONTENT CREATOR
Sam Slovick
ART DIRECTOR
Nancy Hope
CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Erin Aubry Kaplan
Karen Romero
Tony Barnstone
ASSOCIATE EDITOR
Tanner Sherlock