Valerie Kipnis is our 2023-2024 Above the Fray Fellow
Selected from a competitive pool of applicants, our 2023-2034 Above the Fray fellow is Valerie Kipnis. She will travel to the autonomous region of Karakalpakstan — located in northwestern Uzbekistan — to report on the human impacts of a human-caused ecological crisis: the disappearance of the Aral Sea.