Amaya Mikolič-Berrios was a 2019 summer volunteer for In These Times. She is a junior in high school in Trumbull, Connecticut.
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Rural America
When Ecosystems Suffer, So Do Humans: To Heal People We Need to Heal the Planet
Amaya Mikolič-Berrios