She has been a columnist, media and culture critic, editor and staff writer with the Huffington Post, The Washington Post, and The Root, and has contributed to the New York Times, the Smithsonian and Essence magazines. Her most recent book, A Mouth is Always Muzzled: Six Dissidents, Five Continents and the Art of Resistance is set mostly in her parents’ native Guyana. It earned the Independent Publishers Association “Spirit Award,” was named among the top Human Rights books of 2018 by the Hong Kong Free Press, and was featured in the Chicago Tribune. (Source: http://www.nataliehopkinson.com/about)