Our Writers
Greg Harman
Deceleration Founder/Managing Editor Greg Harman is an independent journalist who has written about environmental health and justice issues since the late 1990s.
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Marisol Cortez
Marisol Cortez is the Executive Editor of Deceleration. As a creative writer and community-based scholar, she explores place and power in South Texas and for Deceleration covers ecojustice arts and humanities.
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Syris Valentine
Syris Valentine is a writer and journalist focused on climate solutions, social justice, and the just transition. Their work has appeared in The Atlantic, Grist, High Country News, Scientific American, and elsewhere.
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Roxana Rojas
Roxana Rojas has worked in legal, health, and policy advocacy and has a research background that includes biodiversity, ecosystems services, and indigenous sustainability practices.
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Kit O’Connell
Kit O’Connell is a GLAAD Media-award nominated movement journalist from Austin, Texas. They are the former Digital Editor of the Texas Observer, with bylines at The Advocate, Truthout, and The Barbed Wire, among others.
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To Force Vote on Gaza Ceasefire—A First in Texas—San Marcos Activists Ran Their Own City Council Candidate
Greg Abbott Could Defund San Marcos Police, Flood Control Over Resolution Decrying Israeli Violence
James Courtney
James Courtney is a freelance journalist in San Antonio with particular interests in arts and culture, social justice, and environmental issues. He also is a poet, a teacher, and a proud girl dad.
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Frances Madeson
Frances Madeson is a freelance movement journalist who hopes to still be writing about our brilliant daring struggles on the other side of these inhumanely cruel politics.
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