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Natasha Gardner
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Journalist and Editor, Freelance
Denver
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Biography
Natasha Gardner is an award-winning writer and editor living in Denver, Colorado. From gritty investigations to craft beers, her writing focuses on the West. Gardner worked at 5280 for 13 years, where she wrote long-form narrative pieces and supervised digital special projects. She was named a finalist for a 2012 National Magazine Award in the public interest category for “Direct Fail,” an expose of Colorado’s “direct file” policy of sending juveniles to adult prison. Her investigation of Colorado's foster care system (“Unwanted”) received multiple awards, including a prestigious Sigma Delta Chi Award from the Society of Professional Journalists. She also won The Knight-Risser Prize for Western Environmental Journalism for “Dry Times," an investigation of Colorado's water crisis (co-written). Gardner regularly appears on Colorado Public Television to discuss her work and current affairs. She was a Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma Ochberg Fellow in 2011.
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Freelance
De Pere, Wisconsin, United States