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Ben Shaberman's essays, articles, and commentaries have been carried by several prominent media outlets including: The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun, VegNews, Vegetarian Times, and NPR. He's also published fiction and creative non-fiction in a number of journals including Empty Mirror, The Good Men Project, Months to Years, and many others.

Shaberman holds a master of arts in writing from Johns Hopkins University.

He is the vice president of science communications for the Foundation Fighting Blindness and host of the Eye on the Cure and Hope in Focus podcasts. ...more

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