Sydney Boles
Sydney Boles is the Ohio Valley ReSource reporter covering the economic transition in the heart of Appalachia’s coal country.
Sydney received her Master of Journalism from Medill School of Journalism, where she covered immigration and housing insecurity in Chicagoland.
Before her work in journalism, she studied oral history and postcolonial resistance strategies in Costa Rica, India, South Africa and Turkey.
Sydney grew up in upstate New York and enjoys baking, reading and exploring the outdoors.
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In Kentucky, a group of miners is staging a protest: blocking a railroad. The miners haven't been paid since Blackjewel filed for bankruptcy, so they're preventing a coal train from leaving the plant.