Mark Dowie

Mark Dowie has been in journalism for nearly forty years. He worked for Mother Jones magazine from 1975 to 1985, first as general manager, then as publisher, and finally as editor. Dowie is the author of Conservation Refugees: The Hundred-Year Conflict between Global Conservation and Native Peoples, Losing Ground: American Environmentalism at the Close of the Twentieth Century, and American Foundations: An Investigative History. He has won nineteen awards, been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, and contributed to the Times of London, Harper’s, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Nation. Dowie is currently a contributing editor at Orion and has taught environmental reporting and foreign correspondence at the University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.

— From August 2013