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Path Finders is a weekly email newsletter featuring Q&A interviews with rural thinkers, creators, and doers. In each edition, you’ll hear from people doing creative work in rural settings or shedding light on some problem in rural life and suggesting solutions.
Rural and urban governments experience many of the same challenges and understanding them as interconnected is one way to tackle those issues, argues Michelle Wilde Anderson in her book, The Fight to Save the Town.
The Rural Health Information Hub is a website that provides rural-specific information for doctors, community leaders, and policymakers to make informed decisions regarding rural healthcare.
Kathryn Doby is the chief administrative officer at Alleghany Memorial Hospital in rural Alleghany County, North Carolina. The hospital provides critical care to a medically underserved community.
The University of Arkansas Press has launched a new book series that focuses on the history of rural Black people who opted out of the South’s Great Migration. The series is edited by historians Yulonda Eadie Sano and Cherisse Jones-Branch.
Journalist Zachary Siegel reports on the public health and criminal-legal system in rural and urban America. Siegel spoke with the Daily Yonder about the urgency of the United States’ drug problem, which he says has eclipsed epidemic status.
Bessire writes about how landscapes are depleted through an intentional memory loss that allows environmentally destructive patterns to repeat themselves.
Angel Flight East is a network of volunteer pilots who fly rural patients to far-away hospital visits across 14 eastern states. The effort fills some of the gaps of a broken rural healthcare system.
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Meet the Team
Olivia Weeks is the chief creative force behind the Path Finders newsletter. Her insightful interviews are where it all began. She grew up in West Frankfort, Illinois and first came to the Daily Yonder as a Rural Reporting Fellow.
Olivia previously worked as a news intern at the Provincetown Independent in Provincetown, Massachusetts and is currently a student at Harvard University.
Caroline Carlson is the producer of Path Finders. She is the Daily Yonder’s digital editor and hails from Viroqua, Wisconsin.
Caroline manages the Daily Yonder’s full portfolio of email newsletters, plus the visual bounty of our Instagram channel. She’s previously written for The Heavy Table, The Growler Magazine, Organic Valley, and more.