Writing

I have more than eight years of professional writing and editing experience including research reports, environmental documentation, journalism, strategic communications, and creative writing. My public-facing work has been published in newspapers, magazines, literary journals, newsletters, blogs, zines, government websites, and reference websites. Most of my work since 2018 has taken the form of research reports, academic writing, and environmental documentation. Find a selection of my work below.

Environmental Documentation

• Digital 299 Broadband Project Environmental Assessment (October 2022)
• Digital 299 Broadband Project Final Initial Study/Mitigated Negative Declaration (October 2022)
• Digital 299 Broadband Project Wild and Scenic Rivers Act Section 7 Analysis and Determination (January 2022)

Academic

• Alexander, Tommy, “Evaluating the Success of Compensatory Wetland Mitigation in the California Coastal Zone” (2020). Master’s Projects and Capstones. 997. https://repository.usfca.edu/capstone/997

Essays and Features

• We Live on Ohlone Land. But What Does That Mean? (The Bold Italic, September 2017)
• How to Not Give Your Money to the People Funding the Dakota Access Pipeline: A Citizen’s Guide to Divesting (The Bold Italic, January 2017)
• Standing Rock is Only the Beginning (SF Examiner, December 2016)
• What, Exactly, is the Soda Tax? A Summarized, No-Nonsense San Francisco Voter Guide (The Bold Italic, November 2016)
• I Lived in a 38-Person Co-op in San Francisco, and So Can You (The Bold Italic, September 2016; also picked up by Business Insider)
• Water is Life: Staring Climate Change in the Face on Mount Kilimanjaro (AFAR, August 2016)
• Minerva: The College with the World as its Campus (AFAR, August 2016)
• Compound Medicine: Exploring the Potential of Medical Marijuana (Jollity, June 2015)
• K-Cup or Not-OK-Cup? (Jollity, March 2015)

News Clips

• Senate designates September 14-21, 2019 as National Estuaries Week (The Bay Link, September 2019)
• New bill would help San Francisco Estuary Partnership’s resiliency efforts (The Bay Link, July 2019; also featured on ABAG website)
• Community Challenge Grant Funds New Interpretive Signs on Mount Sutro (Sutro Stewards Blog, July 2019)
• Mount Sutro Bioblitz Recap (Sutro Stewards Blog, March 2018)
• What Would Happen if North Korea Hit San Francisco with a Nuclear Missile? (The Bold Italic, October 2017)
• Have Uber and Lyft Reduced Drunk Driving in San Francisco? (The Bold Italic, October 2017)
• Hundreds Protest Trump Cabinet Picks Outside Senator Feinstein’s SF Office (Hoodline, January 2017)
• With Only 2 Navigation Centers, Which Homeless Encampments Get Priority? (Hoodline, December 2016)
• Scenes from Saturday’s ‘Haight Free Love’ Gathering in The Haight (Hoodline, December 2016)
• Tent Encampment Measure Passes, but Implementation Remains Unclear (Hoodline, November 2016)
• BAVC Celebrates 20 Years in the Mission (Hoodline, November 2016)
• ‘The White Fire’ Blazes Through Los Padres National Forest (The Bottom Line, May 2013)
• Deltopia 2013 Brings Larger Crowds, More Arrests and Injuries (The Bottom Line, April 2013)
• Santa Barbara Police Cars Outfitted with Cameras (The Bottom Line, February 2013)
• UCSB Student Killed by Fall From Balcony Early Thanksgiving Morning (The Bottom Line, November 2012)
• Painted Cave Fire Contained, Firefighters Maintain Watch on Area (The Bottom Line, October 2012)
• Constant UCSB Alerts Not Due to Spike in Crime, Just an Increase in Notifications (The Bottom Line, September 2012)
• Back From the Debt: Students, Workers Stand Up to School Privatization at UC Regents Meetings (The Bottom Line, June 2012)
• San Francisco Appeals Court Rules Prop 8 Unconstitutional (The Bottom Line, February 2012)
• Netflix Loses Subscribers, Suffers Stock Market Drop Following Changes to Solid Business Plan (The Bottom Line, November 2011)
• Common Ground Releases Quarterly Report: Progress with Santa Barbara’s Homeless (The Bottom Line, October 2011)

Stories and Travelogues

• How I Encountered the Kindness of Strangers in One of the Wildest Places in the World (AFAR, 2017)
• Nayarit, Mexico: El Panadero de Sayulita (Odyssa Magazine, 2017)
• Nature’s Lasagna (Invironment, 2016)
• The Ebb and the Flow (The Catalyst, 2015)
• The Dawn Balloon Rosary (2016)

Poetry

• Sound Collage for a Bicycle Commute (The Remembered Arts Journal, August 2016)
• From Every Footstep / LISTEN / Fuck (The Offbeat, Fall 2016)
• I Want to Watch You Grow (Arrow Magazine, May 2016)
• Branching / Joy-Song (SunStruck, March 2016)
• Jar / Foggy Morning in the Channel (The Catalyst, 2014)

Read my poetry online here: https://tommymalexander.com/poetry/