Julia Knoerr
Originally from Los Angeles, Julia Knoerr is a freelance journalist whose work focuses on agriculture, migration, health and environmental justice. She served as an Editorial Intern for The American Prospect magazine in 2021 and was the 2020 Reporting Fellow from Davidson College for the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.
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Purépecha community members are on the frontlines of the Salton Sea environmental and health justice crisis — one of California's worst — but they're frequently unable to participate in policy discussions regarding lithium extraction, water quality, air pollution and more.