While covering U.S.-Canada border tensions, writer Lucy Tompkins was nearly arrested and spent a night in a hobbit house with a baby raccoon.
Lucy Tompkins
News reporter Lucy Tompkins covers immigration, new Americans and the international border for Seven Days. She is a corps member with Report for America, a national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms. Tompkins is a University of Montana graduate and a former Fulbright Scholar who has worked as a fellow for the New York Times. As part of that role, she embedded at the Texas Tribune. She has also written for USA Today and the Missoulian, for which she helped pen the award-winning "Troubled kids, troubled system" investigation of residential schools in Montana.
