Peter Schurmann is the online editor for Ethnic Media Services. He previously worked as communications coordinator for the conservation non-profit Earth Innovation Institute, where he helped coordinate an international team to develop and promote content on climate and tropical forest protection. His reporting spans international affairs, education, health, and environmental issues, and his work has been published in the San Francisco Chronicle, The Nation, and National Catholic Reporter, among other outlets.
Peter’s ORA research supports ethnic media reporters in deepening their understanding of the polycrisis and its systemic drivers, and in connecting the hyper-local issues they cover—such as migration, racial injustice, economic inequality, and Indigenous self-determination—to broader global dynamics.