(Courtesy of Alejandro Higuera [Pascua Yaqui] of Ket t'ui Photography) Former roller derby player Daisy Purdy recently roller skated from Arizona to North Carolina to raise awareness and funds for a water quality research project on the Navajo Nation.
Zak is the southeast Utah reporter for The Tribune. He has been writing from Bluff, Utah, since 2015 and is the author of Confluence: Navigating the Personal & Political On Rivers of the New West. His second book, which will cover the decline of Lake Powell, is forthcoming from Torrey House Press in 2024.