Jenny Tomkins, a member of the In These Times Board of Editors, lives in Sycamore, Ill. She has an M.A. in journalism from the University of Wisconsin and currently works as an interim innkeeper. Her abiding passions are politics, her family, and eating, growing and writing about food.
Feature
Breaking Blockades for Peace
Kathy Kelly hopes for peace as she books passage on a flotilla to Gaza.
Jenny Tomkins
Feature
Reforming Foreign Aid
Will the Obama administration fix a byzantine system?
Jenny Tomkins
Dispatch
Small Towns vs. Nestlé
Rural residents organize to keep their water out of corporate water bottles.
Jenny Tomkins
Dispatch
Xe is the Problem
Keeping the corporation formerly known as Blackwater out of Skunk Hollow.
Jenny Tomkins
Announcing In These Times’ New Agreement with the National Writers Union
Freelance contributors are essential to the quality and success of In These Times and independent media, and this agreement is one way to demonstrate their value to our publication and our commitment to transparency.
For more information about the National Writers Union, visit nwu.org.
Read the full agreement, which reaffirms a floor for the rates of our freelance editorial content, as well as our current rates (which are higher) and submissions guidelines below.