James Branscome is a Carroll County, Virginia, native and Berea College graduate who has covered Appalachia for more than fifty years for the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Daily Yonder, the Mountain Eagle, Cardinal News, the Kentucky Lantern, and West Virginia Watch. A former Appalachian Regional Commission staff member and retired Managing Director of Standard & Poor’s, he is the author of Annihilating the Hillbilly Redux: Appalachia’s Struggle Against America’s Institutions.
