Kerra Bolton
contributing writer
Winner of the New York Times Award for Outstanding Journalism, Kerra Bolton has explored how communities navigate growth and change for 25 years. Her work has covered the impact of U.S. immigration on small Mexican towns, a hospital in rural South Africa dealing with an AIDS crisis post-apartheid, and the rebuilding of a Honduran village after a hurricane ravaged the region. Kerra spends her time in the Mexican Caribbean, learning to swim, dive, and map sunken slave ships. She is also the author of the book Restorative Communities: From Conflict to Conversation.
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