Mara Kardas-Nelson

Mara Kardas-Nelson is an independent journalist focusing on international development and inequality. Her award-winning work has been supported by the International Women's Media Foundation, Investigative Editors and Reporters, the Richard J. Margolis Award, and others and has appeared in the New York Times, the Nation, the Guardian, on NPR, and elsewhere. Mara has also spent years working in global health. Originally from the US, she has also lived in Canada, South Africa, and Sierra Leone.