Each of our contributors passionately specialize in environmental, social justice and sustainability, and have worked hard for years to build hope for the future.
Anabel Gullo is a storyteller in words and images, born and raised in New York, with a deep foundation in multimedia content production that includes journalism, visual editing, and documentary filmmaking. Her documentary work has been screened in local festivals including the Rockaway Film Festival and Montauk Film Festival. She previously worked as Digital and Social Editor for Document Journal, covering art, fashion, and culture. Her writing has also been featured in PAPER Magazine.
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Andrew Gumbel is an LA-based journalist and author who writes regularly for The Guardian, among other publications. His acclaimed books include Oklahoma City: What The Investigation Missed and Why It Still Matters, and Won't Lose This Dream: How An Upstart Urban University Rewrote the Rules of a Broken System.
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Steven Gute is a filmmaker who has worn many hats in his now 20-year career. Gute works as a director, producer, writer, cinematographer, journalist and editor, and already has a long resume of credits stretching across a multitude of formats. While his origins lay in narrative films, he eventually worked on a number of documentary films, including: Leonardo Di Caprio's 11th Hour; followed by Radicalized, a portrait of millennial resistance during the Occupy movement; ongoing front-line documentation of protests at Standing Rock and Black Lives Matter; and ultimately, leading a team to the Arctic to film glaciers in decline for HBO’s Ice on Fire.
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Kathleen Hellen is an award-winning poet whose third, full-length collection Meet Me at the Bottom was released in 2022. Her publications include The Only Country Was the Color of My Skin, Umberto’s Night, which won the poetry prize from Washington Writers’ Publishing House, and two chapbooks, The Girl Who Loved Mothra and Pentimento. Featured on Poetry Daily and Verse Daily, her work is widely published and has appeared in such journals as Arts & Letters, Barrow Street, The Carolina Quarterly, Cimarron Review, Colorado Review, Drunken Boat, Massachusetts Review, New Letters, Nimrod, North American Review, Prairie Schooner, The Rumpus, The Sewanee Review, Sixth Finch, Southern Humanities Review, Subtropics, The Sycamore Review, Tampa Review Online, West Branch, and elsewhere. Hellen’s awards include the Thomas Merton prize for Poetry of the Sacred and prizes from the H.O.W. Journal and Washington Square Review.
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Marc Herman is the author of "The Wizard and the Volcano," "The Shores of Tripoli," and "Searching for El Dorado." He is a founding member of Deca, an international writer's cooperative. His writing has appeared in numerous publications including: The Atlantic, Harper's Bazaar, Slate, The Believer and GQ. Raised in California, he lives in Barcelona with his family.
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Mark Irwin is the author of eleven collections of poetry, including Joyful Orphan (2023), Shimmer (2020), A Passion According to Green (2017), American Urn: Selected Poems (1987-2014), and Bright Hunger (2004). Recognition for his work includes The Nation/Discovery Award, two Colorado Book Awards, four Pushcart Prizes, the James Wright Poetry Award, the Philip Levine Prize for Poetry, and fellowships from the Fulbright, Lilly, and NEA. Purchase Irwin's newest collection of poems, Joyful Orphan, which includes "Radiance" and "We" through the University of Nevada Press.
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Em Joseph is a Lebanese-American artist, filmmaker, surfer, and educator based in Lenapehoking whose work uses various documentary forms to (re)contextualizes multifaceted attachments between societies and natural ecosystems. She has had solo exhibitions at The New Museum (2023-24) and Ortega Y Gasset Projects (2016), participated in WORLDING 2025 at MIT, was a Y11 NEW INC Creative Science Track member, and was a recipient of the Fine Arts Grant from The Arab Foundation for Arts & Culture in 2020 as part of her collaborative project EcoRove. Joseph is part-time faculty of Fine Art & Sustainable Systems at The New School. Joseph was previously adjunct assistant professor of photography at Columbia University, and received an MFA from Columbia University (2016), and a BA from Vassar College (2011). Her website can be found here.
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James Joyce III is Founder and Chief Visionary Officer of Coffee With A Black Guy, an innovative movement in which he facilitates conversations about race and perspective for community groups and organizations. Joyce is a former award-winning journalist and runner-up in the 2021 Santa Barbara mayoral election.
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Erin Aubry Kaplan is a Los Angeles journalist and columnist who writes regularly for the New York Times and Los Angeles Times. She was the first African American to hold the position of weekly columnist for the Los Angeles Times. She is a former staff writer for the LA Weekly and the author of the books: Black Talk, Blue Thoughts and Walking the Color Line: Dispatches from a Black Journalista, and I Heart Obama. She lives in Inglewood, California, with her six dogs.
Dean Kuipers writes about the environment, farming and politics and is the author most recently of a memoir, The Deer Camp. He and his wife, Lauri Kranz, are co-owners of the grocery store LA HOMEFARM and are co-authors of A Garden Can Be Anywhere.
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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
Phuong-Cac “PC” Nguyen
CONTENT CREATOR
Sam Slovick
ART DIRECTOR
Nancy Hope
CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Erin Aubry Kaplan
Tony Barnstone
SOCIAL MEDIA INTERN
Paige Meyer-Draffen