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Donna DeCesare is an Associate Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, having joined the faculty in the fall of 2002. With decades of experience as an international freelance visual reporter, she focuses on social issues through her work. DeCesare has received numerous documentary photography awards and grants, including the Dorothea Lange Prize, Alicia Patterson Fellowship, and the Mother Jones Award for Social Documentary Photography. She was also a Fulbright Fellow and received a grant from the Open Society Foundation, which funded her recent project on youth gangs and migration targeted at young audiences in El Salvador. Her role as a consultant for the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma further underscores her commitment to addressing complex social issues. DeCesare authored the book 'Unsettled/Desasosiego: Children of World Gangs,' published in a bilingual edition by the University of Texas Press in the spring of 2013. Her research interests encompass documentary photography, video storytelling, Latin American studies, human rights in visual documentary, and the impact of journalism trauma on children, particularly involving child soldiers and youth gangs.
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