Candice Bernd

Candice Bernd is a contract editor focusing on Civil & Human Rights issues for Campus Progress. As a reporter for Campus Progress, she covered climate change and the environment, including the battle over the Keystone XL pipeline. She helped launch the Tar Sands Blockade, an ongoing nonviolent direct action campaign to stop the southern leg of the pipeline in Texas. She recently graduated from the University of North Texas with Bachelors’ degrees in Journalism and Political Science. As a campus organizer, she helped eliminate free speech “zones,” fought to get her university off coal, and participated in an anti-fracking campaign in Denton, Texas. She has reported for her school's student-run daily newspaper, co-hosted a Dallas-based progressive talk radio program, and spent the summer of 2011 in Chicago working as an intern for In These Times magazine. She is also currently a Social Media Fellow at Truthout.