Dobkin, Leah

A personal trip to Costa Rica to investigate retirement and investment housing in 2006 steered Leah Dobkin into an encore career of freelance writing. She wrote an article for Kiplinger's Retirement Report about the Costa Rica experience and has not stopped writing since. It has led her to fascinating people in unusual places, including an American expatriate who built a public library in the jungle and a horse logger in the deep Wisconsin woods. Dobkin writes about environmental, social and consumer issues. Prior to freelance writing, Ms. Dobkin was in the aging and nonprofit field for more t...