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Chasing Demons
Mayday at the Bottom of the World
As the RSV Aurora Australis met disaster in Antarctic waters, Jane Stevens feared the end. But she found her beginning in catastrophe’s wake.
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About the Journalist
Jane Ellen Stevens is founder and publisher of PACEs Connection, an organization that “connects those who are implementing trauma-informed and resilience-building practices” based on the science of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and their lifelong impact. She also founded and publishes the related news site ACEsTooHigh.
She has lived and worked in Kenya and Indonesia, during her 30-year career as a science, technology, and health journalist. Her work has appeared in such publications as The Los Angeles Times, The Dallas Morning News, The Washington Post, National Geographic, Nature, and Science, with multimedia reporting projects completed for The New York Times, Discovery Channel, and MSNBC.com.
Jane has taught at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism and the Knight Digital Media Center. She is also co-director of the Violence Reporting Project, which encourages news organizations to take a public health and solution-oriented approach to crime reporting.
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