Outrage Over Donald Trump Is Spurring Activism in Silicon Valley
There are hopes that outrage over the president's actions will help reverse apathy toward the less fortunate.
Cora Currier
Cora Currier is a freelance editor in Los Angeles. A former story editor and reporter at The Intercept, she has written on war, surveillance, immigration, and other topics. She previously worked at ProPublica and the New Yorker, and her writing has appeared in Bookforum, the New Republic, Columbia Journalism Review, The Nation, and elsewhere. She is a co-founding editor of the feminist magazine Lux.
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