It’s week 4 of our Shelter Fund campaign. The Mesa Refuge is still standing empty, waiting for the time when we can invite residents back in. But our fundraising can’t wait.

We’ve raised $70,000, but we still need another $30,000 to get us through this challenging time.

Please donate what you can. Your donations will help us weather this storm and get back to supporting incredible change-makers like Dahlia Lithwick.

This Week: Meet Dahlia Lithwick

Dahlia is a senior editor at Slate, contributing editor at Newsweek, and host of the podcast “Amicus,” writing primarily about U.S. law and politics. She was Pamela Krasney Moral Courage Fellow last year at the Mesa Refuge. From Dahlia:

“I arrived at Mesa Refuge with a book contract, an outline and a chapter. I left — a few magical days later, with the first half of my book. It’s no exaggeration to say that the Mesa Refuge can turn a dreamer into an author, and it’s not just the glorious luxury of days and hours that does it. The refuge meets you where you are. If you have a vague outline, it leads you to polished chapters; if you have half a manuscript, it hauls you over the hump to finish the rest. It’s not just the signatures on the wall and the books on the shelves that whisper that you are an author; it’s the desks and the gardens and the firm conviction of your housemates that you will emerge with a book. That scaffolding itself holds you up until you sit down and the words come, and they come.”

The Hillman Foundation honored Dahlia with a 2018 Hillman Prize, saying, “Dahlia Lithwick has been the nation’s best legal commentator for two decades. As a senior editor for Slate, her columns have fearlessly scrutinized the failings of the justice system.”

Please help us support change makers like Dahlia by donating to our Shelter Fund.