Protesters demonstrate against the Energy Transfer Partners’ Dakota Access pipeline near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in Cannon Ball, North Dakota

Venice Buhain is an online and print journalist whose work has appeared on TVW News, AOL/Patch, The Olympian and other news organizations. She is also the former Editorial Director at The Seattle Globalist. Venice has covered diversity, education, local news and politics. She also is a past Seattle chapter president of the Asian American Journalists Association.