The Northern Short Course in Photojournalism: Lecture Series

2011 Saturday Lecture Series

The 2011 NSC lecture series speakers will be released as soon as they are confirmed.  Stay tuned for up dated information.  Speakers listed below are the 2010 Lecture series speakers

Carl-Phillippe Juste joins the Saturday Speakers Series faculty

Under the threat of persecution, Haitian-born Carl –Phillippe Juste and his politically active family were forced to flee their homeland in 1965. Settling in Miami’s Haitian community, Juste flourished academically and attended the University of Miami. He vigorously pursued photojournalism and, since 1991, has worked as a photojournalist for The Miami Herald.

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David Stephenson

David Stephenson  a four-time recipient of the Kentucky News Photographers Association’s Photographer of the Year Award as well as three-time Sports Photographer of the Year. Stephenson currently is the Photojournalism Adviser for the University of Kentucky’s student newspaper, the Kentucky Kernel.

Maisie Crow

Maisie Crow is a freelance photographer and multimedia producer. In 2008, she began pursuing her master's degree in Visual Communication at Ohio University. She won the Ian Parry Scholarship and The Pierre and Alexandra Boulat Grant in 2009. Maisie was also runner-up College Photographer of the Year that same year.

Michael Williamson

Michael S. Williamson was born in 1957 in Washington, D.C. and raised in several foster homes around the U.S. before settling with a permanent foster in Northern California at age 12. He joined The Washington Post in 1993. He previously worked at The Sacramento Bee (1975-1991) and taught at Western Kentucky University (1991-1993). His first newspaper job was at the Pinole Progress (which later became part of The West County Times) where he did reporting and photography.

Najlah Feanny

Magazines and newspapers worldwide hire New York City-based photojournalist Najlah Feanny for her "day-in-the-life" style of reportage photography. To date, she has been commissioned for more than 2500 assignments.

She has covered national and political issues involving abortion, women's rights, poverty and guns; news stories about hurricanes, floods, wild fires and school shootings; in addition to the business world of mega mergers and chief executive officers and presidential campaigns.