Tamanna Mohapatra

I am a Sierra Club board member (an environmentally focussed US based NGO) and have taken advantage of that to hone my writing skills. They have a quarterly newspaper they publish and I decided I want to write for them on various topics of mutual interest. They were nice and polite enough to not reject my proposal outright! The first article I wrote for them was on e-waste and was 5 times over the word limit. Our editor did I mighty fine job of cutting it up and putting me in