I’m a freelance writer, photographer and multimedia journalist currently based in Redding, California. I currently blog about human rights and education for Change.org, and about environmental justice for the High Country News.
My feature stories and photographs been published in the Christian Science Monitor, the High Country News, the GlobalPost, and Etude literary journal among other publications. I have also produced radio features for Free Speech Radio News and co-produced a short documentary about a master luthier that aired on Oregon Public Broadcasting. I’m interested in stories about education, immigration and people living on society’s margins.
Currently, I’m living with the small Winnemem Wintu tribe at their isolated ranch as part of an immersion journalism project. I’m working on a book about their struggle to preserve their culture through an unorthodox salmon restoration project, which involves the importation of New Zealand salmon that are descended from eggs shipped in the 19th century from the McCloud River in California. Theirs is a classic David and Goliath story that intersects with some of the most pressing issues of our times: the looming water crisis, the depletion of ocean fisheries and survival of indigenous cultures in an age of globalization.
I previously worked as a reporter for about five years at two daily newspapers, and after that I was the seminars coordinator for the Education Writers Association in Washington D.C.
I believe in producing journalism with accuracy, intelligence and integrity, and it’s my goal with every report to make a little more sense of the world for my readers, listeners and viewers.
I can be reached by email at marcdadigan@gmail.com.