Maria Surma Manka is a public relations consultant and writer living in rural Minnesota. Her past endeavors include working for a public relations agency, several nonprofits, a major U.S. retailer, a county solid waste office and a road construction company. She has written for a number of online news sites and blogs. Maria is a traveler, a novice scuba diver, a mom to two boys and loves anything related to food: growing it, hunting it, cooking it, eating it. She appears as a riveted audience member in the film An Inconvenient Truth. Find Maria on Google+.