Defender is a monthly newsletter focused on global environmental justice.
Each edition will be written by me, Alessandra Bergamin, and will focus on a theme ranging from public health to corporate accountability. Through short essays, Defender will illuminate the ways in which the environmental movement exists at the crux of related and seemingly unrelated issues. It will draw connections between these topics, highlight the work of environmental defenders around the world — the people after whom this newsletter is named — and explore solutions to some of the world’s most pressing environmental justice issues.
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About Me
I’m Alessandra Bergamin, an Australian freelance journalist based in Los Angeles. Much of my work focuses on environmental justice and its intersection with issues such as gender, immigration, and corporate accountability. My stories have been published in National Geographic, Harper’s, Elemental, Literary Hub, the New Yorker, and Ensia. I am a 2020 IJNR Environmental Justice Reporting Award grantee and a 2019 UC Berkeley Food and Farming fellow. I have reported from parts of Europe, Latin America, and Sub-Saharan Africa.
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