Tamara Pearson is a writer, journalist, and activist living in Mexico. She has written for New Internationalist, Truthout, Toward Freedom, teleSUR, Common Dreams, Role Reboot, Alternet, the New York Times, and more. She is the author of a progressive literary novel, The Butterfly Prison, and has a degree in politics from Australia, and another in alternative pedagogy from Venezuela. She is currently working as a freelance journalist, finishing her second novel, and working with Central American migrants and refugees, as well as other activism.