Mara Kardas-Nelson is a freelance journalist focusing on inequality, international development, and the environment. Her award-winning work has been featured in New York Times, The Guardian, Reveal, Insider, NPR, The Nation, and elsewhere. Mara also has a background in global health; her time living and working in different parts of the world informs the stories that she tells, and how she tells them. At Mesa Refuge, she worked on her book We Are Not Able to Live in the Sky: The Seductive Promise of Microfinance, which traces the history of microfinance and the financialization of poverty. You can learn more about Mara here.