Jori Lewis

Jori Lewis is an independent journalist based in Dakar who writes about the environment and agriculture, primarily in the Global South. She spent her ICWA fellowship (2011–2013) in Senegal. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic magazine, Discover Magazine, Pacific Standard, Hakai, PRI’s The World and Virginia Quarterly Review, among others. Jori is the author of Slaves for Peanuts, a narrative history examining how peanut agriculture fueled the rise and fall of slavery in 19th-century West Africa. The book won a James Beard media award and the Harriet Tubman Prize. Jori has received a Whiting Grant for Creative Nonfiction, a CEJ Scripps Fellowship from the University of Colorado and a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship from MIT. In addition to her reporting, she serves as senior editor of Adi Magazine, a literary publication focused on global politics.

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