Alessandra Bergamin is a freelance journalist based in Los Angeles. Her work focuses on the intersection of environmental conflict and human rights around the world. She has written for The Baffler, Harper’s Magazine, National Geographic, DAME Magazine, and Lapham's Quarterly, among others. She is a 2020 IJNR Environmental Justice Reporting Award grantee and a 2019 11th Hour Food and Farming Journalism Fellow. Her work has been shortlisted for the True Story Award, a global journalism prize, and will be included in a forthcoming anthology about anti-capitalist foodways.