About the Service

I love storytelling, writing, producing and editing and am lucky enough to get to do these for a living. My journalism appears in publications including The Guardian and Mosaic Science. I've authored two non-fiction books: The Shame Game: Overturning the toxic poverty narrative (2020) & Austerity Bites: A journey to the sharp end of cuts in the UK (2014), and contributed to numerous others. I am a skilled proofreader, researcher, copyeditor and writer across a range of platforms from books and reports to podcasts. In 2020 I was named Best Foreign Correspondent by the Southern California Journalism Awards for my Guardian column, Lesson From America. In 2010 I was a Fulbright Scholar at UC Berkeley. I read social and political Science at the University of Cambridge, UK. I'm based in Los Angeles.   Twitter: maryohara1   shamegamethebook.com projecttwistit.com