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I'm Speaking at the Writing for Change Conference in San Francisco

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Attendees will have the chance to network, learn from and share their ideas with authors, agents, editors and publishing professionals from the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, and New York." For more info. The conference is being produced by a husband and wife literary agency, Elizabeth Pomada and Michael Larsen.

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Wangari Maathai, Dining for Women & LA

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I didn't want to jinx it, so I didn't mention it in my book review of Wangari Maathai's memoir, Unbowed , but I finished the book last week because on Friday my husband and I flew to Los Angeles to hear Maathai speak at a fundraiser organized by the African Millennium Foundation. Those of us who care about the earth, we need to bloom."

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Community Funded Reporting: Interview with David Cohn of Spot.us

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I think at the national level we're always going to have The New York Times , CNN, and The Washington Post to do national investigations, but what we really are threatened to lose in the next year to five years is local investigations and local reporting. And it'll probably be to Southern California, Los Angeles, next.