Jeff Fecke is a New Journalist Fellow for the Center for Independent Media, and a writer for Minnesota Monitor, covering issues of reproductive health, justice, gender equality and politics in general. He has been a blogger since 2002, and became especially interested in issues of reproductive health and justice after becoming the father of a baby girl that same year. He has written for Minvolved and DFLSenate, and recently was added as a blogger at Shakesville. His blog, Blog of the Moderate Left, was nominated for a 2006 Koufax award for blog most worthy of greater attention. Fecke, 33, is a divorced father of one, and lives in Eagan, Minnesota.