Contributors Barbara Ayotte is the editor of <strong>ZEKE</strong> magazine and the Communications Director of the Social Documentary Network. She has served as a senior strategic communications strategist, writer and activist for leading global health, human rights and media nonprofit organizations, including the Nobel Peace Prize- winning Physicians for Human Rights and International Campaign to Ban Landmines. Michelle Bogre currently holds the title of Professor Emerita from Parsons School of Design in New York after a 25-year career teaching almost every type of photography class. She is also a copyright lawyer, documentary photographer and author of four books, with work published in various other books. She is currently trying to finish a long-term documentary project on family farms – @thefarmstories on Instagram – among other projects. Caterina Clerici is an Italian journalist and producer based in New York. She graduated from Columbia University’s Journalism School and is a grantee of the European Journalism Centre for her work in Haiti, Ghana and Rwanda. She worked as a photo editor and VR producer at TIME, and as an executive producer at Blink.la. Daniela Cohen is a freelance journalist and non-fiction writer of South African origin currently based in Vancouver, Canada. Her work has been published in New Canadian Media, Canadian Immigrant, The Source Newspaper, and is upcoming in Living Hyphen. Daniela’s work focuses on themes of displacement and belonging, justice, equity, diversity and inclusion. She is also the co-founder of Identity Pages, a youth writing mentorship program. Marissa Fiorucci is a freelance photographer in Boston, MA. She is former studio manager for photographer Mark Ostow and worked on projects including portraits of the Obama Cabinet for Politico. She specializes in corporate portraits and events, but remains passionate about documentary. Journalist, climate activist, and political scientist, Sarah Fretwell, works as a multimedia storyteller. Her work focuses on the intersection of the environment, people, and business with one question: What if the new bottom line was love? Her award-winning photojournalism creates the human connection that engages people on a personal level. Some of her notable work and clients include the BioCarbon Fund, United Nations, and USAID. Virginia Hanusik is an artist whose projects explore the relationship between landscape, culture, and the built environment. Her work has been exhibited internationally, featured in various publications and events. She has lectured at institutions including New York University about landscape representation and the visual narrative of climate change. On The Water Collaborative of Greater New Orleans board of directors, she coordinates multi-disciplinary projects on the climate crisis. Antonia Juhasz is a New Orleans-based author and investigative journalist focused on energy and climate. Her writing appears in Rolling Stone, National Geographic, The Atlantic, Harper’s <strong>Magazine</strong>, The New York Times, and many more outlets. She is the author of three books, most recently, Black Tide on the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. She is a Monroe Fellow at the Center for the Gulf South at Tulane University, where she also teaches. Antonia is a former Bertha Investigative Journalism Fellow. Dana Melaver is a writer and artist. Her work is rooted in the belief that everything is interesting, and often acts as a bridge among art, thought, and the sciences. Dana's most recent projects include an experimental documentary about sustainable aquaculture, and an ode to the mischievous qualities of light. Artist, educator, and environmental activist, Carolyn Monastra received a BA from Fordham University and an MFA from the Yale School of Art. Her awards include various grants and artist residencies, including at Skaftfell Visual Arts Center in Iceland, which inspired her to focus on the climate crisis. Her photographs are in the Marguiles and Johnson & Johnson Collection and have been exhibited in venues in various countries. Roberto Nistri is an International Photography Awards Winner from Rome who began as a “pure and hard” wildlife photographer and then extended his focus to travel and documentary photography. He has focused on the documentation of ethnic groups and peoples who are threatened by progress and particular political and social conditions in Ethiopia, India, North Ireland, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Burkina Faso and Lebanon, among others. An Italian documentary photographer focused on environmental and social issues, Giacomo d’Orlando moved to Nepal and Peru to enter the world of photojournalism and was inspired to concentrate on the environment while in Australasia. His projects have appeared in The Washington Post, among others. Today, his work looks at how the increasing pressures caused by climate change are reshaping the planet and how present-day society is reacting. Lauren Owens Lambert is a conservation photographer and video journalist based in the Boston area focused on documenting the human aspect of conservation, climate change and our relationship with the natural world during the age of the Anthropocene. An International League of Conservation Photographer with work published in National Wildlife <strong>Magazine</strong> and others, Lauren has also presented at the United Nations on the importance of visual storytelling. During his PhD at the University of Cambridge. Mark Phillips developed multi-perspective approaches to understanding emerging and complex systems. That research approach informs his current photography projects, largely focused on ‘constructive’ stories about people and groups taking action to address societal problems, with current emphasis on the environment and sustainability. His work has been featured in various major publications and exhibitions in UK, USA, and Europe. Andi Rice is an award-winning photographer based in Birmingham, AL. He began his career at a young age photographing live music and events and has since pivoted into covering racial and social justice issues for various publications and producers across the country. He thrives on telling the stories of people through portraiture. Michael O. Snyder is a photographer and filmmaker who uses his combined knowledge of visual storytelling and conservation to create narratives that drive social impact. Michael is a Portrait of Humanity Award Winner, a Climate Journalism Fellow at the Bertha Foundation, a Blue Earth Alliance Photographer, a National Geographic Contributor, and a Resident Artist at the McGuffey Art Center in Charlottesville, Virginia, among others. Maranie Rae Staab is an independent photographer, videographer and journalist. Her work focuses on human rights and social justice issues, displacement, social movements, and the impact of conflict on individuals and society. Maranie strives for visual intimacy, to establish the trust necessary to get close to people and to then share their experience with others. A 2020 Pulitzer Center Reporting Fellowship recipient, Maranie is an alumni of the Eddie Adams Workshop, and winner of the 2019 Best of Photojournalism Emerging Vision prize, among others. Chris Trinh is a Vietnamese-American photojournalist and documentary photographer. Their work primarily focuses on migration, social justice, and how climate change and colonialism impact people of the global majority. Chris' photos have been published in Vice, El País, Grist and elsewhere. Kiliii Yuyan illuminates stories of the Arctic and human communities connected to the land and sea. Informed by both Nanai/Hèzhé (East Asian Indigenous) and Chinese-American ancestry, he explores the human relationship to the natural world from different cultural perspectives and extreme environments, on land and underwater. One of PDN’s 30 Photographers (2019), Kiliii is an award-winning contributor to National Geographic, TIME, and other major publications. 62 / <strong>ZEKE</strong> SPRING <strong>2022</strong>
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