[Bio c. 2017]
Donna De Cesare is an author, educator, documentary photographer and recipient of documentary photography awards and grants. Some highlights are the Dorothea Lange Paul Taylor Prize from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke, the Mother Jones award for Social Documentary photography, a Fulbright fellowship , and several Open Society Foundations grants for independent photographic projects. Her book Unsettled Desasosiego: Children in a World of Gangs was published in 2013 and later that year she received one of international journalism’s highest honors–the Maria Moors Cabot Award for Journalism contributing to Understanding in Western Hemisphere. In 2016 she was named among Time Magazine’s women trailbrazers in photography of the past century. Ms. De Cesare teaches photography in underserved communities as well as to college students and professional photographers in the US and Latin America. She is a Master teacher for the Garcia Marquez New Journalism Project in Cartagena de las Indias Colombia and is a tenured Associate Professor in the School of Journalism at the University of Texas, Austin.
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