info: awards + education
AWARDS + HONORS:
2010 Young Explorers Grant
National Geographic Society
2009 Honorable Mention, Deeper Perspective + Political Categories, Obamaland: Triumph and Downfall
International Photography Awards
2009 Longlist, Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize, Obamaland: Triumph and Downfall
National Portrait Gallery, London
Fotobama Week DC
2008 BBC Training Bursary
Rory Peck Trust Training Fund
2008 Partial Tuition Scholarship
Foundry Photojournalism Workshop
2007 John J. McCloy Fellowship in Journalism
American Council on Germany
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
2004-2005 Year Abroad Scholarship
The Kosciuszko Foundation
+ the Polish Ministry of Education
SPECIALIZED TRAINING:
2010 "When Veterans Come Home" Workshop
Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma + The Carter Center
2008 Hazardous Environment and First Aid Training (HEFAT)
Centurion Risk Assessment
2008 Partial Tuition Scholarship
Foundry Photojournalism Workshop, Mexico City
One week of workshops, portfolio reviews, slide presentations and instruction under photographers Andrea Bruce, Benjamin Lowy, Shaul Schwarz and Stephanie Sinclair.
EDUCATION:
Master of Arts, Security Studies: Terrorism and Sub-State Violence (expected, 2011)
Edmund Walsh Graduate School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
Washington, DC
Master of Science, Journalism (2007)
Columbia Graduate School of Journalism
New York, NY
Bachelor of Arts, East European History + Modern European Languages (2006)
Sarah Lawrence College
Bronxville, NY
Polish Language + History (2004-2005)
Jagiellonian University
Krakow, Poland
LANGUAGES:
Fluent English, Spanish, Portuguese + Polish.