Jennifer Kane is a writer, environment advisor, and former civil servant from the Washington, DC area. She co-wrote and co-led development of the 2024 USAID Biodiversity Policy, which guided a global biodiversity conservation portfolio. Her work has appeared in Conjunctions and Revolute, and she is currently working on a short story collection and a novel about field biologists in Panama. Find her online at jenniferkane.com and on Instagram @‌jenniferkanewrites.

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INSIGHT

The Widening Gyre

By JENNIFER KANE

I can’t stop thinking about who is silenced and who is doing the silencing, about who is and isn’t heard.