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Better gun violence reporting
I lead the Philadelphia Center for Gun Violence Reporting, coordinating our community reporting and professional development programs and supporting our research collaborative. We partner with journalists, researchers, community leaders and other experts to support and advance empathetic, ethical and impactful journalism. Visit: PCGVR.org & IBGVR.org

Advancing PCGVR
- The Stoneleigh Foundation
- Independence Public Media Foundation
- Spring Point Partners
- HFGF
- Knight-Lenfest Local News Transformation Fund
- The Lenfest Institute for Journalism
- The Alfred and Mary Douty Foundation
- Reynolds Journalism Institute
- Philadelphia Office of Violence Prevention
- Barra Foundation Directors Grant Program

Logan Center
I am the assistant director of the Logan Center for Urban Investigative Reporting at Temple University’s Klein College of Media and Communication. The Logan Center and WHYY News partnered on last year’s Murrow Award-winning Stop-and-Frisk podcast. The Logan Center and PCGVR have been collaborating on an upcoming documentary examining harmful news reporting. Other projects are addressing educaion, housing and the role sports can play in violence prevetnion. Visit: templelogancenter.org

Previous roles
@RJI, @CPIJournalism, @OpenDataPhilly; @ReentryUpdates, @BrokeinPhilly & @TempleDNCNews at @TUKleincollege, @GunCrisisNews; @WarNewsRadio, @SwarthmorePeace & @TheLangCenter at @Swarthmore, @NYU_Journalism, @MUJSchool, @DartCenter, @UMKnightWallace, @TuftsIGL, @AP, @PhillyDailyNews, @TLNews, @DedhamTranscrip, @TuftsObserver at @Tufts, @SMFAatTufts

Places I lived
Boston >Wilkes-Barre > Philadelphia > Baghdad > Philly > Ann Arbor > Philly > Mizzou > Philly > Mizzou > Philly

Fellowships & residencies
• Residential Fellow, Reynolds Journalism Institute, University of Missouri School of Journalism ∞
• Journalist in Residence, Swarthmore College ∞
• Practitioner in Residence, Institute for Global Leadership, Tufts University ∞
• Ochberg Fellow, Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, Columbia University ∞
• Fellow, Philadelphia Social Innovations Lab, University of Pennsylvania ∞
• Knight Fellow in Medicine/Health Sciences Journalism, Knight-Wallace Fellows, University of Michigan ∞

Current board appointments
• Mothers In Charge, Board of Directors ∞
• Council on Criminal Justice Crime Trends Working Group ∞
• Jefferson Center for Injury Research and Prevention advisory board, Thomas Jefferson University ∞
• City of Philadelphia Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual DisAbility Services External Stakeholders Learning Collaborative ∞

Former photojournalist
• Philadelphia Daily News ∞
• The Associated Press, Baghdad ∞
• The Times Leader, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. ∞
• The Daily Transcript, Dedham, Mass. ∞
• Freelance news photographer, Boston ∞

Photojournalism laurels
• The Pulitzer Prize ∞
• The Bayeux Prize for War Correspondents
• Sigma Delta Chi Award
• National Headliner Award

Former editor & producer
• The Gun Crisis Reporting Project ∞
• War News Radio ∞
• Independent social media journalist ∞ ∞
• Philadelphia Daily News Video ∞

Hometown honors mean the most
• Best of Philly
• Pen and Pencil Awards
• Philadelphia Geek Award
• Mothers in Charge Partner in Peace
• Philadelphia CeaseFire Community Award
• Philadelphia Firefighters Union Media Award
• Keystone Awards Distinguished Visual Journalist
• Pennsylvania Associated Press Managing Editors Best of Show

Past faculty appointments
• Assistant Professor, University of Missouri School of Journalism, 2009-2010
• Visiting Assistant Professor, Peace and Conflict Studies, Swarthmore College, 2011-2012
• Adjunct Faculty, Carter Journalism Institute, New York University, 2010-2011
• Adjunct Professor, Klein College of Media and Communication, Temple University, 2005-2015

Courses I created
• Peace Journalism, Peace and Conflict Studies, Swarthmore College ∞
• Solutions Journalism, Department of Journalism, Temple University ∞
• Trauma Journalism, Department of Journalism, Temple University ∞

Additional courses taught
• Convergence Multimedia Fundamentals, Reporting and Editing, University of Missouri School of Journalism
• Multimedia Reporting, Carter Journalism Institute, New York University ∞
• Photojournalism Portfolio, Department of Journalism, Temple University
• Urban Photojournalism, Institute for Global Leadership, Tufts University (workshops) ∞

Research
• Changed Frames: A Content Analysis of Public Health Reporting on Local Philadelphia TV News Reporting ∞
• “Like I’m a nobody:” firearm-injured peoples’ perspectives on news media reporting about firearm violence ∞
• Making the news: Victim characteristics associated with media reporting on firearm injury ∞

Former college administrator
• Assistant director for external affairs, Klein College of Media and Communication at Temple University
• Manager for Media and Social Responsibility, Lang Center for Civic and Social Responsibility, Swarthmore College

Major exhibitions
• “New York, New York: The 20th Century,” Norton Museum of Art ∞
• “Manna: Masterworks from the Permanent Art Collection,” Aidekman Arts Center, Tufts University ∞
• “Overt/Covert,” Aidekman Arts Center, Tufts University ∞

Select lectures and panels
• Questioning our assumptions: basic reporting processes, mass tragedy and engagement, International Journalism Festival, Perugia, Italy, 2017 ∞
• Streaming Video Journalism, IRE Conference, Philadelphia, 2015
• Gun Violence Intervention Programs, TedX Philadelphia, 2014
• Walking Through Ground Zero, The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, N.Y., 2011 ∞
• Journalism and Trauma: Auckland University, Auckland, New Zealand; University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand; Whitireia Community Polytechnic, Wellington, New Zealand; 2009 ∞
• Covering the War in Iraq, Knight-Wallace Conference, 2007
• The Battle for Najaf, Aidekman Arts Center, Tufts University, 2004

Past board appointments
• Generocity.org, Philadelphia
• Pen and Pencil Club, Philadelphia
• Free Speech Film Festival, Philadelphia
• Temple University Journalism Department
• Exposure Center for Photojournalism, Tufts University

Past projects, launches and collaborations
• Philadelphia Initiative for Journalism Innovation
• Philadelphia Conference of Photojournalists
• Center for Public Interest Journalism
• Klein News Innovation Camp
• The Reentry Project
• Temple DNC News
• Open Data Philly
• Broke in Philly

Education
• Graduate studies in Journalism, Temple University
• B.S. in Education, Tufts University
• Drawing, Painting and Photography, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Certifications
• Hostile environment reporting ∞
• Human subject research ∞
• Threat assessment ∞

Foundation
• I spent the first eight years of my professional life washing dishes in a senior center kitchen, on shovel duty at a kennel and selling punk rock buttons in a night club.

Social Media
• Facebook
• LinkedIn
• Muck Rack
• Twitter

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