Valerie Vande Panne

Valerie Vande Panne is an essayist and an award-winning freelance reporter. She is a Next City Equitable Cities Fellow, and a former New Economies Reporting Project Finance Solutions Fellow. Ms. Vande Panne’s work has been featured in Bloomberg, Columbia Journalism Review, Harvard Gazette, Harvard Law Today, In These Times, Politico, Reuters, and Salon, among many other publications. She’s been a featured guest on NPR, and was a columnist at The Boston Phoenix. Much of Ms. Vande Panne’s work is solutions journalism, and focuses on the crossroads of peace and economics, alternative economics, and how healthy economic systems are being built in communities around the world. She also covers media, the environment, and politics.