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Story Capital: Spend It Like It Matters
Credit note: Cover photo captures writing from A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit. I’ve come to believe that stories are one of the most valuable things we exchange. Not currency in…
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Healthy Information Ecosystem = Civic Justice
Last week, I visited San Antonio to attend Press Forward Summit 2026 with funders, journalists and community leaders about the erosion of local news—and the growing reach of disinformation across our information ecosystem. It…
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Gunnison, in Translation
Yesterday I was flying high above beautiful Gunnison, Colorado, to celebrate the gifts that bilingual community leaders bring to this who live here. This place has a way of making big questions feel very…
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What the Wind Carries
This is me, near the end of August, traveling to visit childhood friends, far away from the Rocky Mountains. I know the stretch of I-70 across Kansas by rhythm: long horizons, open fields, grain…
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Dark Skies and Stewardship of Place
Last week in Tabernash, Colorado, a clear night sky offered a reminder of what thoughtful stewardship can protect. Colorado’s dark sky communities are about more than astronomy. They reflect local choices about conservation, responsible…
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Taking the Scenic (albeit longer) Route
I like to understand places by exploring place and land. Sometimes that means trekking through mountains, hiking a desert trail or following a path until the landscape changes the scale of whatever I was…
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Funding the Flow
This year, some of my biggest conversations about media and information ecosystems happened in cities shaped by water. In Miami, at the Knight Media Forum, the conversation stretched from local news to catalytic capital…
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Going Dutch on Water, Wheels, and Climate
My first view of Amsterdam in May earlier this year came from the air. As the plane descended, the waterways appeared before the city did: rivers, canals and geometric lines of water threading through…
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Plot Twist: Stories Change Systems
One of the best parts of my everyday work is getting to produce and design convenings and gatherings—thinking about who needs to be in the room, what questions are worth holding together and how…
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