A local book club re-discovers local writer Gertrude Dorsey Brown more than 100 years after her work was published. This story is the third part of a series of written and audio stories called Black Lives in Licking County, a collaboration between the NAACP of Licking County, The Reporting Project at Denison University, and the Newark Advocate.
Author Archives: Sarah Barney
Sarah Barney is studying Environmental Studies, Narrative Journalism, and Geoscience at Denison University. She has been a journalist-intern for the Put-in-Bay Gazette and The Reporting Project, and a communications and development intern for the Rodale Institute. She has also worked on social media and newsletters for the Lake Erie Nature and Wildlife Center. Sarah (and her two co-producers) won the 2020 Denison Podcast-a-thon for the audio story, “The Immortal Jellyfish.” She also won the Nan Nowik Award for her Women & Gender Studies essay “About the Timid.” Sarah currently resides in Oak Harbor, Ohio, an itty-bitty town just east of Toledo, where she has lots of trees to admire.
