Eli Sanders
Eli Sanders is formerly associate editor at the Stranger. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing in 2012 for his reporting on the murder of Teresa Butz. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Seattle Times, The American Prospect, and Salon, among other publications. Sanders lives in Seattle. He writes the Substack newsletter Wild West, which you can subscribe to here.
How Facebook is helping fill in a Hidden Yakima Valley History
The Facebook group’s small clan of idealistic detectives, amateur oral historians, and thrilled descendants of farmworkers offers quite a contrast to the usual news coming out of Facebook’s much-criticized “groups” feature in recent years.