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Emily Green

Emily Green

she/her

Emily Green served as Street Roots' first staff reporter from 2014 to 2020, and then as managing editor from 2020 to 2021. During her time with the organization, her reporting highlighted the exploitation of Oregon's immigrant reforestation workers, environmental impacts of Oregon's timber industry, the treatment of state prisoners, the experience of a man dealing with trauma from a lifetime spent behind bars as he neared his death, the impacts of punitive fines and fees, and it stopped Multnomah County from ending in-person visitation at its jails. She blueprinted Portland Street Response, a program the city funded 15 months after her initial report, and is also co-host of the "Walled In" podcast. Emily's reporting on social and environmental justice issues has appeared in street papers spanning the globe and across the United States. She is a graduate of the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication. You can find her @GreenWrites on Twitter.

Articles by Emily Green

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    Walled In podcast logo: A co-production of Street Roots and The Exiled Voice

    Walled In podcast | After prison, ‘I had to relearn how to touch people’

    Episode 2: Former prisoners discuss how absence of touch and rules against intimacy affected them while they were incarcerated, and an expert explains the science behind touch starvation
    By
    Emily Green Joshua Wright
    July 10, 2021
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    Illustration of two hands reaching for each other, but not touching, with prison bars in the background

    The science behind human touch — and what happens when prisoners go without

    Deprivation of positive physical contact can result in depression and aggressive behavior, explains the founder of the Touch Research Institute
    By
    Emily Green
    July 7, 2021
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    A helicopter sprays herbicide

    In Vietnam and Oregon, the battle continues over Agent Orange

    Street Roots talks with acclaimed documentary director Alan Adelson about his latest film, ‘The People vs. Agent Orange’
    By
    Emily Green
    June 16, 2021
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    Two images side by side: Tori Cooper and the Human Rights Campaign logo

    How to be a better trans ally: Human Rights Campaign’s Tori Cooper explains

    The health and equity advocate also shares her thoughts on the wave of anti-transgender legislation and violence
    By
    Emily Green
    May 19, 2021
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    Photo of Rebekah Modrak alongside a photo of her book "Radical Humility"

    The art of listening in an era of shameless self-promotion

    ‘Radical Humility’ editor Rebekah Modrak talks to Street Roots about her new book exploring what it means to be humble in an age of ego
    By
    Emily Green
    March 31, 2021
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    Aerial view of Coffee Creek Correctional Facility

    Guard at Oregon women’s prison faces felony charges for domestic violence

    Alex Doran works directly with female prisoners at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility despite serious allegations
    By
    Emily Green
    March 24, 2021
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    Photos of 42 Oregon state prisoners who died of COVID-19. Headline reads: The Expendable.

    These are the 42 Oregon state prisoners who have died from COVID-19

    With more than 3,500 confirmed cases of coronavirus among its prisoners, the Oregon Department of Corrections has faced criticism for its handling of the pandemic
    By
    Chris May Emily Green
    March 10, 2021
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    Bar graph from week of April 22, 2020, to week of March 2, 2021, shows there have been at least 2,459 deaths from coronavirus reported among prisoners.

    Why The Marshall Project is tracking COVID-19 in America’s prisons

    Katie Park, one of the journalists behind the project, talks to Street Roots about what the team has learned: ‘This really is a serious issue behind bars’
    By
    Emily Green
    March 10, 2021
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    Illustration of an arm and fist covered in barbed wire

    The trauma of incarceration: It’s ‘gladiator school’ inside

    Experiencing, or even witnessing, violence behind bars can have long-term impacts on prisoners, researcher Meghan Novisky explains
    By
    Emily Green
    March 3, 2021
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    Walled In podcast | ‘It was a nightmare’: Prison violence and its lasting toll

    Episode 1: Former prisoners share violent events they experienced in prison, and a criminologist discusses how even indirect exposure to violence can have lingering effects on prisoners long after they're released
    By
    Emily Green Joshua Wright
    February 28, 2021

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