About the Author

Arno Kopecky is a journalist and travel writer whose dispatches have appeared in The Walrus, Foreign Policy, the Globe and Mail, Maclean's, the Tyee, Kenya's Daily Nation and other publications. His work focuses on human rights, the environment, and globalization. Kopecky has covered civil uprisings in Mexico, cyclones in Burma, Iceland's attempt to become the first oil-free nation on earth, Zimbabwe's thirty-year dictatorship, and election violence in Kenya. He lives in Squamish, BC.