Journalist Donna Bryson was born in Florida, grew up in California, earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Northwestern University and has reported from four continents. She is currently a freelance journalist living in Colorado with her husband and daughter. Her work has been published by, among others, The Associated Press, The Christian Science Monitor, The Daily Beast, Equal Times, Stanford Social Innovation Review, The New York Times, Stars and Stripes, VICE and The Wall Street Journal.