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Photojournalist who has been chronicling the nonviolent fight against mountaintop removal coal mining. She is embedded with Climate Ground Zero, a pressure campaign to stop mountaintop removal coal mining. She is the director of the journalism advocacy project at Appalachia Watch. Her latest book is called Dragline.

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