Trish O’Kane used her quiet but powerful voice in service of many causes in her distinguished career as a journalist and activist. Whether it was documenting human rights abuses in Central America or working to fight racial and economic injustice in the American South, O’Kane, now a Senior Lecturer at the University of Vermont’s Rubenstein School for the Environment and Natural Resources, was a fearless chronicler of wrongs big and small. But what she didn’t do, she admits, was pay “any attention to environmental issues,” which she saw as separate from the global problems she worked on.
