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AWARDS:
2011 CENTER Project Competition: Honorable Mention
2010 Magnum Expression Award: Finalist
2010 Anthropographia: Honorable Mention for Competition for Human Rights – Multimedia
2009 Photolucida’s Critical Mass: Named in the Critical Mass Top 50
2009 Emmy Awards: Won for Trapped: Mental Illness in America’s Prisons
2009 Inge Morath Award: Runner Up
2009 Emerging Photographers Fund: Finalist
2009 Communication Arts Photography Annual
2009 Webby Awards: Official Honoree for Documentary: Individual Episode
2009 Best of Photojournalism Awards: 1st Place – Non-Traditional Photojournalism Publishing
2009 Best of Photojournalism Awards: 1st Place – Documentary Video, 2nd Place – Feature Multimedia Package
2009 Photographers Giving Back Photo Award: Recognized in Portrait of the Year category
2009 First Book Prize in Photography: Finalist for the Center for Documentary Studies / Honickman Book Prize
2009 Anthropographia: Nominated for The Photojournalism Competition for Human Rights
2008 College Photographer of the Year: Gold–Documentary, Gold–Feature, Gold–Multimedia Project
2008 Atlanta Photojournalism Contest: 1st Place – Multimedia Project, 2nd Place – Feature Picture Story
2008 Southern Short Course: Student Photographer of the Year
2008 NPPA Best of Photojournalism Video Awards: 1st Place – News Video, 1st Place – Sports Video
2008 White House News Photographer’s Association: Honorable Mention — Student Portfolio
2007 Atlanta Photojournalism Contest: 3rd Place – General News, Honorable Mention — Picture Story
2007 College Photographer of the Year: Gold – Picture Story, Honorable Mention — Picture Story
EXHIBITIONS:
2012 Cruel and Unusual, Group Exhibition | Noorderlicht Photo Gallery, The Netherlands.
2012 Women in Multimedia, Group Exhibition | Spazio Labo, Bologna, Italy
2011 Minnesota Fine Arts Exhibition, Juried Group Exhibition | St. Paul, MN
2011 Woman as Photographer, Group Exhibition | Minneapolis Photo Center, Minneapolis, MN
2011 Wide Angle View, Group Exhibition | Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA
2010 Arts Perchance, Juried Group Exhibition | Minneapolis Institute of Arts, MN
2010 Exposed: Photolucida’s Critical Mass, Juried Group Exhibition | The Photo Center NW, Seattle, WA
2010 New York Photo Festival, Group exhibition | Brooklyn Bridge Plaza, Brooklyn, NY
2010 Lumix Festival for Young Photojournalism, Group Exhibition | Fotofestival Hannover, Germany
2010 Look Between Festival of the Photograph, Group Exhibition | Deep Rock Farm, Crozet, VA
2009 Anthropographia Juried Group Exhibition, September | Just For Laughs Museum, Montreal, Quebec
2009 Festival of the Photograph, Group Exhibition | Charlottesville, VA
2009 Anthropographia Juried Group Exhibition | Université du Québec à Montréal, Montreal, Quebec
2008 AIDS Athens Film Festival | Athens, GA
2008 Southern Appalachian International Film Festival | Johnson City, TN
2008 Reel Venus Film Festival | Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY
2006 Acts of Optimism, Group Exhibition & Book Release | Visual Arts Center, Portsmouth, VA
HONORS:
Speaker, Eddie Adams Workshop. Jeffersonville, NY. October 2011
Participant, Review Santa Fe. June 2011
Speaker, The A-List. Brooklyn Park, MN. May 2011
Reviewer, MCAD Showcase. Minneapolis, MN. April 2011
Judge, Ohio News Photographer Association. March 2011
Class Presenter for Syracuse University. Syracuse, NY, December 2010
Speaker on Making Reportage Projects Happen. PDN PhotoExpo Plus, New York, NY, October 2010
Class Presenter for Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. Milwaukee, WI, September 2010
Presenter at Maine Media Faculty Presentations, Union Hall, Rockport, ME, June 2010
Faculty at Maine Media Workshops, Rockport, ME, June 2010
Speaker at The University of North Carolina. Chapel Hill, NC, March 2010
Host/Co-Founder of The Review Workshop. Outer Banks, NC, March 2010
Faculty at Eddie Adams Workshop, Jeffersonville, NY, October 2009
Scholarship Winner LOOK3 Photo Festival. Charlottesville, VA, June, 2008
Eddie Adams Workshop, Jeffersonville, NY, October 2008
Presenter at the National Corrections Security Conference, Cincinnati, Ohio. September 2008
EDUCATION:
Ohio University
School of Visual Communication. Athens, Ohio.
Master of Arts degree in Visual Communication with a concentration in photography
Sept. 2006 — March 2008
Danish School of Journalism
International School in Photography. Aarhus, Denmark.
Post graduate work in photography with a concentration in stereotypes
January 2005 — June 2005
James Madison University
School of Communication Studies, Harrisonburg, Va.
Bachelor of Science degree in Communication Studies
Sept. 1998 — Dec. 2002