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Valerie Vande Panne

Category: blog

Indigenous Foods Day

It’s Time to Rename Thanksgiving Most people in North America do not know it was Abraham Lincoln who created the…

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10 Jan 2021

Reflecting on the Maine-Wabanaki Child Welfare TRC Commission Five Years Later

The Wabanaki is both the People and the Place of First Light. Collectively they are the tribes: Maliseet,  Mi’kmaq, Passamaquoddy,…

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7 Nov 2020

What Truth and Reconciliation Looks Like in Practice

Black Lives Matter protests have continued for months, in the wake of what feels like endless police violence. In fact,…

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7 Nov 2020

Fashion Is Quietly a Major Fossil Fuel Industry—Could a Sustainable Revolution Be Around the Corner?

New York City is the fashion capital of the world. Its streets are peppered with influencers on Instagram photoshoots, its…

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5 Sep 2019

Goodman Institute for Investigative Reporting 2018-2019 Fellow

I am honored to report I am an In These Times Goodman Institute for Investigative Reporting 2018-2019 Fellow! I will continue to…

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8 Jun 2018

If you seek a progressive U.S. senate candidate this Midterm…

I had an idea for an article earlier this week: I would look at some of the candidates challenging incumbents…

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26 Apr 2018

Oklahoma’s Revolution

OKLAHOMA—Oklahoma is in the midst of a revolution, with rolling teacher strikes statewide. Teachers have taken over the state capitol…

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16 Apr 2018

What are you?

  I remember the first time I thought I might not be White. I was about 8 years old, in…

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15 Dec 2017

This Small City Is Showing How Supporting Artists Can Have a Big Impact

Dayton, Ohio, is cool. Yes, really. This little Midwestern city of 140,000 is overlooked by most of the USA—flyover country,…

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20 Nov 2017

Beggin for Crumbs, from Amazon

Amazon says, “land, site preparation, tax credits/exemptions, relocation grants, workforce grants, utility incentives/grants, permitting, and fee reductions….The initial cost and ongoing…

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16 Oct 2017

Study asks whether reporters are influenced by who they follow on Twitter

Guess what? They are. Read my latest for Columbia Journalism Review.

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16 Aug 2017

The Therapeutic Value of Virtual Reality

On using VR to treat PTSD, depression, addiction, anxiety disorders, pain, autism, sexual assault trauma, and fears of everything from…

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22 Jul 2017
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