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Bolivia has quietly become the hub of the hemisphere’s mercury trade, as uncontrolled gold mining wreaks havoc on local environments. I traveled to the “door to the Bolivian Amazon” to share the story of one indigenous community paying a huge price for all this contamination.
As a Fellow at Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy, I worked on a variety of print publications, including copy editing this anthology about agricultural land use and ownership around the world.
After nearly 10 years living and working in Bolivia, I was finally prepared to share with Lonely Planet my list of top things to do in this amazing country.
For two years I was the Editor-in-Chief of this monthly general interest print magazine, Bolivia’s foremost English language publication.
As the world stood still during the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic, I traveled to Lake Titicaca to learn how one rural community, largely dependent on tourism dollars, was hoping, praying, and preparing for the return of paying visitors to their picturesque hamlet. It remains to be seen if that return will ever come.
I served as a copyeditor for Pambazuka News, a leading source of information on Pan-African activism and social justice movements.
I’ve worked across media with the Transnational Institute, including editing its Land Sovereignty in the Americas series, in conjunction with the Institute for Food and Development Policy/Food First.
I was en editor and contributor to this anthology from Mill City Press. It was a finalist for a 2012 Midwest Book Award.
I copyedited this classic analysis of the global food crisis and the many movements working towards a sustainable global food system.
