Anya began working with the Center for Rural Strategies in 2020 as a Rural Reporting Fellow. After graduating from Swarthmore College in 2022, she rejoined the team as a staff writer and multimedia producer for the Daily Yonder. Anya reports on a range of topics, from prisons to popular culture, and helps out with the Yonder Report, Rural Remix podcasts and the Good, Bad, and the Elegy newsletter.
Rural America
In North Carolina, Immigrants Resist the U.S. “Language Graveyard”
Speakers of Hñähñu, an Indigenous language from what is now Mexico, are banding together to preserve their culture.
Anya Petrone Slepyan
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