Kendra Pierre-Louis is a freelance writer based in Queens, New York. Her work focuses on the relationship between humans and their environment. She is the author of Green Washed: Why We Can’t Buy Our Way to a Green Planet (Ig Publishing, 2012), and her writing has appeared in Newsweek, In These Times, Modern Farmer, and Slate. Kendra believes in being awed and terrified by nature on a semi-regular basis, which is probably how she wound up running from a polar bear in the Arctic.