H. Claire Brown
Senior staff writer
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H. Claire Brown is a senior staff writer for The Counter. Her work has also appeared in The Atlantic, The Guardian, and The Intercept and has won awards from the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing, the New York Press Club, the Newswomen's Club of New York, and others. A North Carolina native, she now lives in Brooklyn.
![waitress wearing a mask and gloves disinfects a table in a Restaurant on May 5, 2020 in Stillwater, Oklahoma. July 2021](https://thecounter.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/sba-restaurant-revitalization-fund-covid-july-2021.jpg)
![Cropped shot of a woman shopping in a grocery store. June 2021](https://thecounter.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/grocery_basket_red-scaled.jpg)
![Alexis Thomas (left) and Eve Studnicka (right) in a collage illustration. June 2021](https://thecounter.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/funeral-potatoes-final.jpg)
![Irene Li's Rewrites artwork featuring her portrait. June 2021](https://thecounter.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Irene-Li-headshot-June-2021.jpg)
![The JBS meat placing plant is viewed in Plainwell, Michigan on June 2, 2021.](https://thecounter.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/JBS-meat-plant-Plainwell-MI-June-2021.jpg)
![Employees walk past the JBS plant in Marshalltown, Iowa on Wednesday, December 5, 2018.](https://thecounter.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/JBS-plant-Marshalltown-Iowa-060121.jpg)
![Workers wearing masks and gloves work at a production line making burritos. Covid-19 virus is around them with stacks of trays in the background. May 2021](https://thecounter.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Erre-Galvez-The-Counter-Part3_B-copy.jpg)
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