A 90-minute showcase “What We Carry” will feature seven shorts from East African filmmakers.
Author Archives: Trisha Collopy
Trisha Collopy is the news editor at Sahan Journal.
Her work as a reporter has taken her inside the halls of Congress, to struggling malls in south Baltimore, fading towns in Appalachia, Hutterite colonies in Montana, and tribal casinos and survivalist enclaves in Washington state.
She’s interviewed four U.S. poet laureates, including Juan Felipe Herrara and Joy Harjo; written about prison writing programs and bilingual learning; and followed Hmong foragers and Eastern European mushroomers deep into Minnesota forests.
She spent nine years at the Star Tribune as a digital producer and a copy desk team leader. Before that, she worked at the Pioneer Press and mentored young journalists as a community college instructor and through ThreeSixty Journalism.
When not working, she can be found in the woods.
