Editorial team - The Margin

Bryce Cracknell

FOUNDER AND EDITOR IN CHIEF, THE MARGIN

Bryce Cracknell is a writer, filmmaker, and journalist from North Carolina based in Los Angeles, CA. As a storyteller, Bryce seeks to elevate narratives, histories, and experiences that are often overlooked, cast aside, or forgotten. He is the Founder and Editor in Chief of the Anthem award-winning environmental justice publication, The Margin. Bryce was also a writer on Season 6 of the CBS series, FBI: MOST WANTED and led social impact campaigns for narrative and documentary features and television shows including DESCENDANT, FLEE, JUST MERCY, and WHEN THEY SEE US. He is a Morris K. and Stewart L. Udall Scholar and a graduate of Duke University where he earned a B.A. in Public Policy. Forbes named Bryce as one of 68 climate leaders changing the film and TV industry. He is a member of the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ), the Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ), the 2024 NBC TV Writers Program and is repped by Kronicle Media.

Ko Bragg

MANAGING EDITOR

Ko Bragg (she/her) is a writer and editor based in and focused on justice in the U.S. South, Mississippi in particular. Previously she served as the Race & Place Editor at Scalawag, where she launched a newsletter about popular culture and the criminal-legal system called "pop justice." You can find her work in The Atlantic, Frontline, Harper’s Bazaar, Columbia Journalism Review, Southerly, Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting, and more. Ko is an alumna of Spelman College, Columbia Journalism School, and Sciences Po Ecole de Journalisme.

Jasmine Williams

PRODUCER

Jasmine Williams (she/her) is a writer, creative producer, and curator whose passion is creating programming and digital media to highlight the Southern Black experience. Using art as a tool to connect communities and share stories, her goal is to inspire everyday folks to see the art in their existence. Jasmine is the creator of ‘Sipp Talk Media, a digital platform that uses storytelling to shift the narrative of Mississippi, by centering Black experiences and culture. Exploring themes of language, food, history, art, and lifestyle. Jasmine is committed to the visibility of Black Southern stories and our creative legacy.

Clare Fox

Clare Fox (she/they) joined Sustainable Agriculture and Food System Funders (SAFSF) as Executive Director in January 2024. For over 20 years, SAFSF has led the field as the largest national network of philanthropies and impact investors supporting an equitable and climate resilient food and agriculture system. Having first worked as a radio producer and media educator at Youth Radio and NPR, Clare stepped into a lifelong passion and commitment to food justice. She served as Executive Director of the Los Angeles Food Policy Council, where she built a collaborative network of over 400 partners across public, private, nonprofit and philanthropic sectors working together to expand access to healthy food for low-income residents, improve conditions for food workers, and increased local and sustainable farming in the region. Clare then joined Everytable, a growth stage public benefit corporation, as Vice President of Strategic Partnerships, where she partnered with nonprofits, government, schools and healthcare on a $10m+ vertical focused on addressing food access and food security. While there, she spearheaded philanthropic partnerships that led to the creation of a $12m blended capital vehicle to offer franchise business ownership to BIPOC entrepreneurs through training, mentorship and access to capital. In addition to The Margin, Clare serves on the Board of the Los Angeles Community Garden Council, and the Leadership Council of the Los Angeles Food Policy Council. Clare is a proud graduate of Mount Holyoke College and the University of California, Los Angeles. She is in love with her hometown of LA, where she lives with her husband, and a rich community of "angelic troublemakers."

Adina Luo

Adina Luo (she/they) is a filmmaker and media executive. She is currently COO at Antigravity Academy (DÌDI), a production company and incubator building Hollywood’s first-ever community-centered studio. Previously, Adina led strategy work at Participant, holding the pen on the corporate planning process, supporting impact-driven film and TV (e.g. Judas and the Black Messiah, Descendant, The First Wave), and developing best-in-class approaches to content and campaigning. Adina also produced For Our Children (2022, Netflix), a documentary feature following the mothers behind Black Lives Matter, with support from Sundance, Tribeca, IDA, SFFILM, among others. With a background in venture capital and entrepreneurship, she is particularly focused on advancing work at the intersection of media, technology, and culture change. Adina studied business at the Wharton School and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania.

Cameron Oglesby

JOURNALIST

Cameron (she/her) is an internationally awarded environmental justice (EJ) organizer, oral historian, and journalist who has worked for nearly a decade to establish climate education initiatives, redistribute resources to frontline organizers, and report on environmental racism, climate, policy, and land in the U.S. Cameron is the founder of the Environmental Justice Oral History Project – an educational repository that combines diverse storytelling traditions to document EJ in the U.S. Southeast. Cameron is a National Geographic Young Explorer; Young, Gifted, and Green 40 Under 40 Awardee; Aspen Institute Future Leader Climate Fellow; and 30 Under 30 Leader with NAAEE, who has spoken about storytelling as a powerful climate solution on panels with the EPA, CEC, and NATO. Her reporting has been featured in Grist, The Nation, Environmental Health News, and Yale Climate Connections, among others. Cameron received her Master's in Public Policy and Bachelor's in Environmental Science and Policy from Duke University. She works full-time as the Senior Officer for Rural Outreach at Climate United and Calvert Impact, supporting the redirection of capital to critical solutions for people and planet. Her work is inspired by her own connection to ancestral farmland that’s been in her family for 100 years.

Rae Spriggs

Rae Spriggs (she/her) is a fourth-year Environmental Health Sciences doctoral candidate at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Her work sits at the intersection of extreme climate exposures, social vulnerability (racial and ethnic composition, historical environmental injustice, and economic disadvantage), and mental health outcomes. Her dissertation research is evaluating spatiotemporal trends and disparities in mental health-related mortality, as well as the association with extreme climate exposures such as tropical cyclones. She is expected to complete her PhD in the spring of 2027.