J. Nathan Matias is a Guatemalan-American writer and academic who journeys through landscape, ideas, and histories on two wheels. As a professor at Cornell, I organize citizen science for safer, more understanding digital environments.
Latest posts by J. Nathan Matias
Trip Report: Cycling in the footsteps of the 1966 Farmworkers March
In June, J. Nathan Matias and Ivan Sigal undertook a 500-plus-mile fundraising bicycle ride along the route of the 1966 California Farmworkers March. Here's the full report on their journey.
Arvin, California: Lost futures, past hopes, deferred promises
“Owners no longer worked on the farms. They forgot the land, the smell, the feel of it, remembered only that they owned it, what they gained and lost by it.”
