Ryan Schuessler is a Chicago-based journalist whose work has appeared in the Guardian, the Washington Post, the New York Times, Al Jazeera America, and National Geographic News. He has filed stories from around the United States (Alaska, Missouri, Idaho, etc.) and around the world (Bosnia-Herzegovina, Costa Rica, Montserrat). Ryan frequently writes at the intersection of the environment and social justice issues, as well as on conservation, the Arctic, religion, diaspora communities, and identity.