Events - The Margin

Pursuing Higher Ground
September 8th, 2025

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In a region still healing from recent devastating floods and bracing for the uncertainties of the upcoming hurricane season, we invite you to a timely and deeply human conversation around Pursuing Higher Ground. Set six months after the hurricane that changed Appalachia when the Cane River flooded, sweeping away lives, homes, and livelihoods, this story follows farmer and teacher Gaelen Corozine and his family in Burnsville, North Carolina, as they pick up the pieces.

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Speakers

Panelist: Christian Monterrosa, Photojournalist
Panelist: Trey Walk, Writer
Panelist: Gaelen Corozine, Famer and Educator
Host: Bryce Cracknell, Founder and Editor in Chief, The Margin

After Allen Field
August 7th, 2025

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Join The Margin and Managing Editor, Ko Bragg, for an urgent conversation about After Allen Field, journalist Amal Ahmed’s deep‑dive into Harris County, Texas’s first mandatory buyout program. In the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, county officials identified Allen Field—a low‑lying, predominantly Hispanic and Black neighborhood along Greens Bayou—as “hopelessly deep” in the floodplain and paid more than 400 homeowners to leave. Rather than build infrastructure, the land was cleared, leaving vacant lots where families once lived and fracturing the tight‑knit community ties built over generations. As Texas communities reel from the latest Guadalupe River flooding, this discussion couldn’t be more urgent.

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Speakers

Panelist: Amal Ahmed, Journalist - After Allen Field
Panelist: Zoe Middleton, fmr. Harris County staffer, Associate Policy Director at the Union of Concerned Scientists
Panelist: Alice Liu, Co-Director of Communications, Organizing, and Disaster Preparedness with West Street Recovery
Host: Ko Bragg, Managing Editor, The Margin

In Toxic Detention
July 8th, 2025

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Join us for a powerful discussion with journalist Rico Moore, the investigative reporter behind The Margin’s exposé “In Toxic Detention,” and community members directly impacted by Washington’s privately run immigration facility: the Northwest Detention Center (NWDC) in Tacoma.

For years, NWDC has operated on a toxic Superfund site, exposing detainees to contaminated soil, groundwater, and air, with ongoing reports of diesel fumes, brown water, and mental health crises behind its walls.

Despite hundreds of complaints and mounting evidence, ICE and GEO Group continue to block public health inspections and deny wrongdoing. This event brings together voices on the frontlines of environmental justice, immigrant rights, and investigative journalism.

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Speakers
Panelist: Rico Moore, Journalist - In Toxic Detention
Panelist: Rufina Reyes, Director of La Resistencia
Panelist: Maru Mora-Villalpando, Founder of La Resistencia
Host: Bryce Cracknell, Editor in Chief & Founder, The Margin