Shannon Sims

@shannongsims

Shannon Sims is a freelance journalist based in Rio de Janeiro and New Orleans whose work focuses on climate, justice and culture. She has reported from Brazil for the past six years for publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Guardian among others. Her legal and environmental reporting has appeared on the cover of Bloomberg Businessweek and on the front page of The New York Times. She has a law degree from The University of Texas and is a former fellow of the Institute of Current World Aff

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Undocumented, vulnerable, scared: the women who pick your food for $3 an hour

In the fields of south Texas Mexican women work long hours in dangerous conditions under the ever-present threat of deportation On a rainy, pre-dawn Monday morning in the fields of the Rio Grande Valley along…
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A Rwandan Game Park Defying the Odds

Despite modest tourism numbers, Akagera National Park is a success story in the making, particularly considering that, like its host country, it survived catastrophe. A vervet monkey and her baby in Akagera National Park. The…
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These Women Were Told Not to Play Soccer. Instead They Formed a Team.

Away from the lights of the World Cup, on the African archipelago of Zanzibar, a group of Muslim women are challenging a culture that says only men can play soccer. Rukia Talib Yahya, 19, resting…