Curriculum Vitae

Teaching

- Advisor and creator of photojournalism curriculum at the Center for Excellence in Journalism, Institute for Business Administration, Karachi, Pakistan, Jan 2022 to present

- Lead Academic Lecturer - Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University & YouTube Creator Program for Independent Journalists, July 2021 to present

- Currently developing and implementing professional training for YouTube journalists

-  Visiting professor of photojournalism, Center for Excellence in Journalism, Institute for Business Administration, Karachi, Pakistan, 2016 & 2017

-  Guest lecturer and advisor, International Center for Photography, NYC, 2014

-  Adjunct professor of photojournalism and multimedia journalism, Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University, 2012 - 2019

Recognition, Exhibits & Fellowships

Urban 2020 Photo Awards + Exhibition, Trieste Photo Days, Trieste, Italy
- Finalist in the Projects & Portfolios Exhibit, “Los Angeles Quarantine Portraits”

Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles, June 2020 to present

-  “Los Angeles Quarantine Portraits” are featured in the exhibit “Collecting Community History: A Regional Collections Initiative of Exploration and Preservation”

The Year in Pictures, The New York Times, 2019
- Photography featured in collection of the Times’ best published images of 2019

National Fellow, 2019, USC Center for Health Journalism
- Awarded national fellowship to report on healthcare obstacles for undocumented immigrants in California’s Inland Empire

WUWM 89.7, Milwaukee National Public Radio
- July 2019
- Interview about my experiences photographing evictions, in a story about the “Evicted” exhibit at the Mobile Design Box in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

-  Festival of Ethical Photography, Lodi, Italy, October 2018

  • -  First place, World Report Award/Documenting Humanity, non-profit category - “Caring for the Invisible of Los Angeles”

  • -  Images on display at the festival, October 2018

    -  Interviewed about my work and the winning images in a video series about healthcare and photography during COVID-19, June 2020

“Evicted” - American Building Museum, Washington, D.C.
- April 2018-May 2019
- Photographs part of the inaugural exhibit based on Matthew Desmond’s book,
- Photographs included in the traveling exhibit: Mobile Design Box, Milwaukee, WI, June - September 2019; Fresno County Public Library, Fresno, CA, November 2019 - December 2019; Anchorage Museum, Anchorage Alaska, February 2020 - April 2020; Kansas City Public Library, Kansas City, MO, April 2020 - July 2020; Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, Hartford, CT, August 2020 - November 2020

Nominee, Peter Lisagor Award from the Chicago Headline Club, 2017
- Medill Investigative Lab (formerly Medill Justice Project), Northwestern University - Led a group of NU journalism graduate students on a visual investigation into

abandoned and blighted properties owned by the District of Columbia

WGN Radio 720 AM, Chicago , July 2010

  • -  Interview about my photography of the National Cougar Convention, and the crowning of Miss Cougar America; photographs published in various outlets via ZUMA Press

  • -  September, 2004, Hermann, Missouri, “Rolfing Brothers,”
    - Part of collection of photo stories about residents of Hermann, Missouri
    - Selected photographer and participant in prestigious Missouri Photo Workshop