Solana Larsen is a Danish-Puerto Rican journalist and activist in New York. Currently, she works as the managing editor of GlobalVoicesOnline.org. Prior to that, She was an editor with the global politics website OpenDemocracy.net for five years. At the time of the Iranian presidential elections in 2005, she worked was the editor of Iran Scan 1384, a blog about Iranian politics in English. In addition to her work a GlobalVoicesOnline.org, Solana writes freelance for the web and radio. She earned her MA in International Journalism from City University in London. 

Solana has covered the UN Summit in 2005, and from the World Social Forum in 2006, UN Commission on the Status of Women in 2007.  In 2004, she co-founded The World Speaks, a blog that kept track of non-American online campaigns about US politics. She travels extensively, and has taught a postgraduate journalism class about illegal immigration at New York University in 2005. She founded PuertoDansk: The Danish-Puerto Rican Society. She also blogs in Danish about technology with her father Dan at Blogbyblog.dk.

Hear what Solana Larsen has to say about the Iranian election story, and why she thinks the AP wire should contact her.

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This interview was conducted on at 9:00am June 16th and has been edited for clarity.

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