Info: Awards & Education

AWARDS:

PULITZER PRIZE, 2009: Awarded the Pulitzer Prize as part of the New York Times team for International Reporting. Her photographic work was part of the New York Times coverage of the war in Afghanistan for the magazine cover article Talibanistan, Sept 7, 2008.

GETTY IMAGES GRANT FOR EDITORIAL PHOTOGRAPHY 2008, for continuing work in Darfur, Sudan

HONORARY FELLOW OF THE COLUMBIA COLLEGE OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS: awarded a fellowship to document a photo essay and accompanying interviews with victims of sexual assault in the Democratic Republic of Congo

FUJI YOUNG PHOTOGRAPHER, 2005

Perpignan, France: Chosen by Fuji as the young photographer to exhibit photographs and present a slideshow at Visa pour L’Image for a photographic essay on injured American soldiers in Balad,

WORLD PRESS MASTERCLASS, Amsterdam: Selected as one of the 12 participants in the World Press Masterclass, created a body of work for the project, and exhibited it along with 11 other students at the Amsterdam Photography Museum, FOAM.

AMERICAN PHOTO ANNUAL: 2003, 2004, 2005: Selected photo essays and singles appeared from Iraq, Mexico, and Pakistan for the annual ‘Best of…’ photo book.

COMMUNICATION ARTS, 2004, 2002

INFINITY AWARD, International Center of Photography: Young Photographer of the Year, 2002, New York City

PDN’S THIRTY: Named one of the thirty best emerging photographers in the world by Photo District News Magazine in their March 2002 issue

Pictures of the Year, Magazine Division, News Picture Story, Third Place, "Bombs Hit Istanbul

Synagogue and British Consulate,” for The New York Times, 2004

POY: Pictures of the Year: Award of Excellence, ‘Midnight Mass,’ Cuba, December 1999.

EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON

B.A., 1995, International Relations & Italian: Honors and Distinction

UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA, ITALY

1993-94: Economics and Political Science studies

LANGUAGES:English, Spanish, & Italian.