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Silja J.A. Talvi is a senior editor at In These Times, an investigative journalist and essayist with credits in newspapers and magazines nationwide, including The Nation, Salon, Santa Fe Reporter, Utne, and the Christian Science Monitor. She is at work on a book about women in prison. Her articles on social issues—with a particular emphasis on criminal justice, ethnicity and gender—have garnered a dozen Society of Professional Journalists Western Washington regional awards. Talvi receive in both 2005 and 2006 a PASS award (from the National Council on Crime and Delinquency) for a magazine feature on the impact of Three Strikes sentencing on African American men, and another on the privatization incarceration trend for ITT. Born in Helsinki, Finland, and raised in Hollywood, Calif., Talvi earned her BA in Ethnic Studies in 1991 from Mills College in Oakland, Calif. She completing her master’s thesis in Womens Studies at San Francisco State University in on Israeli and Palestinian women. Since 1996, Talvi has been a full-time writer, reporting from the San Francisco Bay Area, Silicon Valley, New Mexico, Los Angeles, the Puget Sound, as well as Western and Eastern portions of Washington State.

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