Ocean Malandra is a widely published environmental journalist and food/travel writer who divides his time between San Francisco, California and Bogota, Colombia. His work has appeared in diverse outlets including Vice, Mongabay, Earth Island Journal, Conde Naste, Lonely Planet, High Times Magazine, Parabola Magazine, and Paste Magazine, where he wrote the environmental column EarthRx.
He possesses academic certificates in Writing for Social Justice from U.C. Berkeley, Sustainable Tourism from the University of Copenhagen, and Gestion Territorial y
Gobernabilidad Para el Turismo en Colombia from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana.
Ocean is a member of the Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ), the Solutions
Journalism Network, the International Travel Writers Alliance, and the Cusco Writers Guild.