Jen

"I pivoted from wanting to work for reproductive rights to wanting to save the planet so that we could all have any other kind of right we might need."

"my goal is to help uplift them as an organization"

"I am trying to connect the dots. And so I'm doing that through just constant communication with people."

"I have to make myself feel valuable to this group and therefore making the author feel valuable."

"the best part of my job is really meeting these people who are so passionate about saving the planet and, um, knowing 'em."

"I'm one person managing an entire program, so there's really not a lot of time for me to get everything done."

"It would be impossible, I think, for me to work for a job that isn't within the environmental sphere."

"Editors need incredible detail-oriented skills, excellent reading comprehension, and the ability to interpret someone else's voice."

"There are people that will want to write books and there are people that should write books and they're not always the same people."

"I did an unpaid internship, two unpaid internships. Um, but I have privilege to be able to do that, and that is not something everyone has, so it's difficult."

"I sort my inbox by unread, oldest first. It tricks my brain to think I'm doing the shinier thing, and I need that to keep my attention on tasks."

"I studied what I wanted to study, so, um, that would be my most successful. I took classes that interested me."

"I have to do a lot of interpretation. I work with a lot of older white men often, uh, to do that kind of work."