Each of our contributors passionately specialize in environmental, social justice and sustainability, and have worked hard for years to build hope for the future.
Lynne Thompson is the Poet Laureate for the City of Los Angeles. She is the author of Start With a Small Guitar and Beg No Pardon, winner of the Perugia Book Award and the Great Lakes Colleges Association’s New Writers Award, and Fretwork, winner of the Marsh Hawk Poetry Prize. A Pushcart Prize nominee,Thompson’s work has been published in Pleiades, Catamaran, The Common, Ploughshares and Best American Poetry 2020, among others.
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Ada Trillo is a Philadelphia-based photographer, native to the Juarez-El Paso binational metroplex. In her work, she focuses on borders of inclusion and exclusion as they are experienced through people in forced prostitution; climate and violence-related international migration; and US exclusions, resulting from long-standing borders of race and class. Through the elements of documentary and fine art photography, Trillo’s goal is to bring attention to the impact that these borders have on exploited and marginalized people who cannot themselves tell their stories. She is the recipient of numerous awards and grants; she has exhibited internationally in Luxembourg, England and Italy; and her work is included in the permanent collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. She holds degrees from the Istituto Marangoni in Milan and Drexel University in Philadelphia.
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Paul Tullis is a journalist specializing in long-form features on the environment, medical science, criminal justice and more for (mostly) U.S. magazines, including The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, Bloomberg Businessweek, Scientific American, Nature, Wired, The Guardian, TheAtlantic.com, and more. His writing and editing have won awards from professional organizations including the Society of Professional Journalists and Society of Environmental Journalists. He currently lives with his family in Amsterdam.
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Brian Turner is an American poet, essayist and professor. He is the author of: My Life as a Foreign Country: A Memoir and two collections of poetry: Here, Bullet and Phantom Noise. He’s the editor of The Kiss and co-edited The Strangest of Theatres. He’s published in The New York Times, The Guardian, National Geographic, Harper’s, and other fine journals. He won the 2005 Beatrice Hawley Award for his debut collection, Here, Bullet (Alice James Books) the first of many awards and honors received for this collection of poems about his experience as a soldier in the Iraq War. His honors since include a Lannan Literary Fellowship and NEA Literature Fellowship in Poetry and the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship. His second collection, shortlisted for the 2010 T.S. Eliot Prize is Phantom Noise (Alice James Books, USA; Bloodaxe Books, UK, 2010), 2012 JUSFC Japan-US Friendship Commission Fellowship and 2016 Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry. He lives in Orlando, Florida, with the world’s sweetest golden retriever, Dene.
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Gretchen Uhrinek (she/her) is a writer and editor based in Pittsburgh, PA. She has an undergraduate degree in creative writing and will complete her master's degree in biology by the year's end. Her work can be found in Northern Woodlands Magazine, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, The Longridge Review, and elsewhere. Follow Sustainability Club on Instagram here.
Luigi Ventura a first generation born-and-bred Angeleno, a photographer and a filmmaker. He holds native perspectives of a brown-skinned U.S. citizen. What he has witnessed recently is a vast mix of people taking to the streets of Los Angeles ⏤a markedly diverse and inclusive crowd: young families with strollers, high school students, Gen Z youth, octogenarians, young women and members of the LGBTQIA + community, all showing up in record numbers, all taking seriously the power of using one’s voice. As a photographer, he gains inspiration from the people who show up; their energy brings him hope for a present and future in which generations of people come together to make the world a better place. Through the elements of photojournalism and filmmaking, my goal is to bring attention to and amplify the voices of those who are not being heard. He has worked on more than 20 made-for-television series and more than 50 films and videos, including: The Good Place (2018); Destroyer (2018); Oprah’s Master Class (2018); VEEP (2017); and Santa Clarita Diet (2017). For more information about my work, check out my website https://www.luigiventuraphotography.com
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Besides being a caffeinated essayist and activist, Justin Warfield is a musician who rose to prominence as a pioneer of early 90s hip-hop and later found international success and fame as the frontman of She Wants Revenge, which twice headlined Coachella stages, and whose hit Tear You Apart helped sell hundreds of thousands of albums and which appears on numerous film and TV soundtracks. Warfield lives in Los Angeles with his wife and son where he is currently wrapping his debut short film, What Follows, finishing a solo album, and riding his bicycle in neighboring Griffith Park.
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Charles H. Webb's latest collection of poems, Sidebend World, was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. Recipient of grants from the Whiting and Guggenheim foundations, Webb teaches Creative Writing at California State University, Long Beach. His novel Ursula Lake was published by Red Hen Press in 2022.
Wendy Wilkinson has been a writer in the celebrity horse world for almost two decades. She co-authored the New York Times best seller People We Know, Horses They Love with cover Robert Redford and several years later partnered with Morgan Freeman on Morgan Freeman and Friends, Caribbean Cooking for a Cause. A contributor to Cowboys & Indians and Cowgirl magazines, her cover stories have included Freeman, Tom Selleck, Tommy Lee Jones, Leonardo DiCaprio, Maddie & Tae and Yellowstone's Jen Landon.
Freelance contributor Scott Willoughby spent the better part of 20 years as a staff writer, columnist and Outdoors Editor for The Denver Post, where he covered topics ranging from hunting, fishing and wildlife management to public lands, policy and conservation from his home on the edge of the White River National Forest in Eagle, Colorado. His writing has also appeared in Men’s Journal, National Geographic Adventure, Outside magazine and several other regional and national publications through the years. Scott lives in Eagle, Colorado on the edge of the White River National Forest.
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Tracy McCartney
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