Burning Man Journal Authors

Mango helps Center Camp Café, Arctica, and Temple Guardians run smoothly all year by doing "all the things," as their Assistant Manager. She oversees logistics and budgets, and manages many volunteers while keeping tabs on all the details. Mango has been burning since 2005 and has participated in large-scale art projects. Some of her hobbies include blending essential oils and macro photography. On playa you can find her scurrying around the three departments with tangled hair and a bag of potato chips.

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Mari Karjalainen is a Helsinki-based Burner. By day, she is a journalist, content planner and writer. By night she drifts away with techno music, relaxes with yoga and meditation or escapes to nature.

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Maria Gotay is a writer, designer, traveller, festival junkie, seeker of all things prismatic currently skipping across the world as a digital nomad.

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Marian serves as Burning Man Project’s first Chief Executive Officer. She first attended Burning Man in 1995, met Larry and the other organizers in the fall of 1996, and in 1997 helped found the contemporary Burning Man organization. In previous roles, she was the Director of Business and Communications, briefly oversaw the Black Rock City Department of Public Works, and steered the development of the Burning Man Regional Network, which is now on six continents, with more than 300 representatives in 37 countries. Marian is currently leading the organization’s efforts to facilitate and extend the Burning Man ethos globally.

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Marisa Belger is a writer and life coach who inspires mothers to step into their authenticity. She’s an ex-New Yorker living in the Bay Area with her two boys, partner, and a charming chihuahua named Frankie. She’s been attending Burning Man since 2004.

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Mark Day is a long-time Burning Man videographer, who has interviewed many artists and event participants for his 24 Hours at Burning Man video series. You'll often catch him pondering the fact that "the sky looks magnificent" at Burning Man, in a moderately successful attempt to turn it into some sort of meme. You can find his work at youtube.com/markdaycomedy

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Marnee is Burning Man Project’s Associate Director of Government Affairs. Her work focuses on permitting and relationships with the Nevada Legislature, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, Pershing County, and multiple other Nevada agencies. She helps Burning Man navigate Nevada politics and federal issues affecting the Burning Man event. Marnee’s first trip to Black Rock City was 2001, and in 2007 she worked with the Department of Public Works and the Communications team, writing and photographing content for the Burning Blog “Building Black Rock City”. From 2009 to 2013, she served as the Deputy Director at Black Rock Solar. She loves the way Burning Man expands her world and flips ideas upside down.

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Marty (his real name) is a Regional Burner and social researcher. He writes about politics, public policy, and transformative event culture.

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Matt Douglass (aka Casper) has been fortunate to camp with Dilated Peoples every year since 2015. He currently hangs his rain hat in Portland, Oregon, with his husband and their 12-year-old Schnauzer, Cuzco. When he’s not amateur-writing, professional-coding, or casual-hiking, he coaches founders of tech startups, and volunteers with political campaigns.

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Matthew Nelson is a professional writer and journalist, and a member of Death Guild Thunderdome since 2000.

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