Hope M. Pender

About Hope

I believe that the most important information is often the hardest to understand.

It's trapped behind a wall of scientific jargon, legal-speak, or technical language. That's a problem. When people don't understand an issue, they can't make informed decisions about it. Knowledge becomes something for a select few, and that’s not how a healthy society works.

My mission is to be a translator.

I take on the dense, complicated subjects and make it my job to break them down into plain English. My goal isn't to "dumb down" the news, but to make it accessible. I cut through the clutter to get to the core of what you actually need to know and why it matters to your life.

If I've done my work correctly, you'll walk away from one of my articles feeling smarter and more confident about a topic, not more confused.

Questions about a complex topic? Send them my way.

You can find my reporting for Chroniq Now below.