Nick Rahaim is an award-winning writer, researcher, and former commercial fisherman. He’s the program director for volunteer-led Jiquilisco Bay Alliance, an organization that runs sustainable fishing, mangrove reforestation, and community empowerment projects in El Salvador. Nick’s work in El Salvador began in 2022 when he moved to the country for a Fulbright fellowship, following his graduation from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies with a masters in International Environmental Policy. Nick was also a member of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize-winning team at the Press Democrat in Santa Rosa for their coverage of the devastating North Bay wildfires. As a commercial fisherman has worked in more than a dozen fisheries from Southern California to the Bering Sea, logging nearly 1,500 days at sea.
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