Tamara Pearson is a writer, journalist, activist, and teacher. Now reporting from Puebla, Mexico, she was previously based in Ecuador as an editor for an international news organisation. She has been a journalist for 18 years, working from Venezuela as an on the ground reporter and respected analyst, and for Green Left Weekly from Australia. She has also written for a range of other media in English and Spanish from Bolivia, Mexico, Pakistan, Zimbabwe, and more. She campaigned for refugee rights and against the war on Iraq in Australia, and was involved in community organising in Venezuela. She also worked at an alternative school there, promoting creativity and imagination as a tools of expression and empowerment.