Melinda Tuhus

Melinda Tuhus has been a staff reporter or independent journalist for the past 25 years, and has won numerous regional and international awards for her work. She focuses on reporting on the environment, women's issues and criminal justice (i.e., "punishment") reforms. Based in New Haven, CT, in recent years she has reported from South Africa, Israel/the West Bank, Haiti, New Orleans and the Louisiana Gulf Coast, and West Virginia, the site of massive mountaintop removal coal operations.