Maura Stephens
Independent Journalist • Writer • Educator • Theater Artist
Not content to sit idly as our Earth burns and the guilty fiddle
Maura Stephens is an independent journalist, editor, educator, scholar, author, and theatre artist whose life work has involved international relations, human rights, grassroots organizing, civic education, media literacy, organic farming and food, performing arts, humanities, and sciences.
She's passionately committed to racial, gender, and economic equity; environmental, climate, and social justice; protecting our natural world (including humans); and contributing to the common good via independent media, public and community education, plant-based nutrition, and activism on the many important issues of our times.
A lifelong interdisciplinarian, she earned her MFA in creative writing/playwriting from Goddard College after studying theater and creative writing as an undergraduate and horticulture, landscape design, and communications in graduate school. She is currently associated with the United Nations-mandated University for Peace.
Please check out the independent news sites linked below and visit the organizations listed under those, with which Maura works regularly. You'll never revert to corporate-run "news"!
Some Favorite Indy Media Outlets:
TruthOut (contributor)
Common Dreams (contributor)
CounterPunch (contributor)
Counterspin (FAIR's weekly radio show)
E - The Environmental Magazine
Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff
FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting)
National Radio Project/Making Contact
Unicorn Riot www.unicornriot.ninja
WRFI radio Ithaca, Watkins Glen, online
Yes! magazine (contributor)
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Maura's grassroots groups include, among many others:
Coalition to Protect New York (cofounder)
FrackBustersNY (cofounder)
System Change Not Climate Change, an anticapitalist ecosocialist network
You Are Here fracking infrastructure map, in collaboration with FracTracker
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Maura's favorite arts orgs include:
Onstage/OffStage theater radio show/
podcast with George Sapio