info: awards + education
AWARDS + HONORS:
FULBRIGHT FELLOWSHIP, 2011-2012
Photography grantee to Azerbaijan focusing on the role of women in the oil and gas rich post-Soviet republic wedged between Russia and Iran as well as divergent traditions from East and West.
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY, 2010
Young Explorers Grant awarded by the Expeditions Council to photograph economic and social life along the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline route in Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey.
Selected image of New York Times front page photograph of Rod Blagojevich's Final Day as Illinois Governor included in best of annual photography anthology book.
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY EDMUND WALSH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF FOREIGN SERVICE, 2009-2011
Awarded a merit-based scholarship to complete a master's degree in the Security Studies Program, with a concentration on terrorism and sub-state violence.
LUCIE FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS, 2009, 2010, 2011
Recipient of honorable mentions in the photo essay category for a series of images about the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline, Hungary's Toxic Red Sludge industrial accident and the rise of Rahm Emanuel as mayor of Chicago (2011); Cuba's economic reality (2010); and for a juxtaposition of two images of U.S. President Barack Obama during his historic election night victory and former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich during his final day in office (2009).
NEWSWEEK - THE YEAR IN PICTURES, 2009
Single image of former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich on his final day in office selected for print edition Year in Pictures 2009.
THE NEW YORK TIMES - THE YEAR IN PICTURES, 2009
Single image of former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich on his final day in office selected for online edition of The Year in Pictures 2009.
RORY PECK TRUST TRAINING FUND, 2008
Recipient of a BBC Training Bursary to participate in 5-day Centurion Risk Assessment hazardous environment and first aid training (HEFAT) course.
FOUNDRY PHOTOJOURNALISM WORKSHOP, 2008
Recipient of a partial tuition scholarship to participate in the inaugural Foundry Photojournalism Workshop in Mexico City as a student under photographers Andrea Bruce, Benjamin Lowy, Shaul Schwarz and Stephanie Sinclair and assistant to Stephanie Sinclair.
AMERICAN COUNCIL ON GERMANY, 2007
Recipient of a John J. McCloy Fellowship in Journalism to spend one month in Germany and Poland researching and reporting an article published by e-politik.de on Poland's public enemy number one, German MP Erika Steinbach, and her effort to build a Center Against Expulsions in Berlin to memorialize Germans who were evicted from modern Polish territory and across Central and Eastern Europe following the Second World War.
COLUMBIA GRADUATE SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM, 2007
Recipient of the photojournalism award for work completed as a graduate student.
THE KOSCIUSZKO FOUNDATION AND THE POLISH MINISTRY OF EDUCATION, 2004-2005
Recipient of a year abroad scholarship for undergraduate study of Polish language and culture at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland.
EDUCATION:
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY, EDMUND WALSH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF FOREIGN SERVICE (Washington, DC)
Master of Arts in Security Studies, 2011
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, GRADUATE SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM (New York, NY)
Master of Science in Journalism, 2007
SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE (Bronxville, NY)
Bachelor of Arts in History + Modern Languages, 2006
JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR POLISH AND DIASPORA STUDIES (Krakow, Poland)
Polish Language + History (2004-2005)
LANGUAGES:
English, Spanish, Portuguese + Polish.
SPECIALIZED TRANING:
VII Masterclass/Canon Workshop with Ron Haviv, 2010
(Brooklyn, New York).
When Veterans Come Home, The Carter Center and the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, 2010
(Atlanta, Georgia).
BBC Training Bursary, Hazardous Environment and First Aid Training (HEFAT), Centurion Risk Assessment, 2008
(Virginia, United States).
Foundry Photojournalism Workshop, 2008
(Mexico City, Mexico).