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Announcing the New Publisher

We are pleased to announce that David Gray-Donald will be Briarpatch’s next publisher!

David will be joining Briarpatch in March. A regular contributor for Briarpatch and NOW Toronto on environmental and racial justice issues, and more recently as an editor and board member with the Media Co-op, David has experience with many sides of independent journalism. Prior to writing, David studied environment and biology at McGill University in Montreal, then worked on developing a sustainability strategy for the university. While there, hundreds of thousands of students took to the streets in 2012 to stop tuition increases, helping politicize David along the way.