Eli Hiller

Eli Hiller is a Filipino American documentary filmmaker and photographer who has covered refugee crises, housing disparities, social movements, and environmental justice in North America, Central America, and Southeast Asia. After graduating from Ohio University in 2016 with a double major in geography and photojournalism, Hiller moved to the Philippines for three years. While there, he engaged with artists across mediums for collaborative projects. Hiller’s journalism and filmmaking earned him a DMZ Documentary Development Grant (2019) and the Eyewitness Photojournalism Grant from the Pulitzer Center (2020). He lives in Columbus, Ohio, covering local movements, and is in pre-production for “Halfie,” a documentary unpacking his journey of finding his siblings.

Sarahbeth Maney

Sarahbeth Maney is a 2021-2022 photography fellow at the New York Times‘ Washington, D.C. bureau. Her personal work focuses on topics related to education, disability, and inequalities that disproportionately impact Black and brown communities. Most recently, she documented the Black Lives Matter movement and the California wildfire season. In addition, she filmed a short documentary following Ahmet Ustunel, the first blind person to kayak independently from Asia to Europe using navigational prototype technology. Maney graduated from San Francisco State University in 2019 with a degree in photojournalism, and has interned at the San Francisco Chronicle and the Flint Journal in Michigan. Her photography has been published by TIME, Vanity Fair, Apple, the Washington Post, and the San Francisco Chronicle, among others. Maney is a member of Diversify Photo, the National Association of Black Journalists, Authority Collective, and Black Women Photographers.

Joana Toro

Joana Toro is a self-taught Colombian photographer based in both New York City and Bogota, Colombia. Her work explores issues of immigration, human rights, and identity and was featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, World Press Photo Witness, Open Society Foundations, and Photoword China Magazine, amongst others. She worked as a staff photographer with the major magazines and newspapers in Colombia before she migrated to the United States in 2011 to further her career as a documentarian and artist. In 2019, she published her second monograph, “Hello I Am Kitty” (Tragaluz, Colombia, 2019). “Hello I Am Kitty” was inaugurated in an exhibition at the Tragaluz and Gabriel Garcia Marquez journalism festival in Medellin, Colombia. In 2020 her work was included in the public collection of the Library of Congress in D.C. It has been exhibited in international photo festivals all over the globe: Les Femmes s’exposent in France, Photoville in New York, Guate Photo in Guatemala, Just Another Festival in India, the International Photography Festival in Pingyao, China, and more.

Joana Toro es una fotógrafa colombiana autodidacta que vive tanto en la ciudad de Nueva York como en Bogotá, Colombia. Su trabajo explora temas de inmigración, derechos humanos e identidad y apareció en the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, World Press Photo Witness, Open Society Foundations y Photoword China Magazine, entre otros. Trabajó como fotógrafa de plantilla en las principales revistas y periódicos de Colombia antes de emigrar a los Estados Unidos en 2011 para avanzar en su carrera como documentalista y artista. En 2019, publicó su segunda monografía, “Hello I Am Kitty” (Tragaluz, Colombia, 2019). “Hello I Am Kitty” fue inaugurada en una exposición en el festival de periodismo Tragaluz y Gabriel García Márquez en Medellín, Colombia. En 2020 su obra fue incluida en la colección pública de The Library of Congress en D.C. Se ha exhibido en festivales internacionales de fotografía en todo el mundo: Les Femmes s’exposent France 2019, Photoville New York, Guate Photo, Guatemala, Just another Festival India, International Photography Festival Pingyao China, y más.

The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting

The Pulitzer Center’s mission is to champion the power of stories to make complex issues relevant and inspire action. Founded in 2006, the Center is an essential source of support for enterprise reporting in the United States and globally. The thousands of journalists and educators in our networks span more than 80 countries, and our work reaches tens of millions of people each year through our news-media partners. The journalism we support covers the world’s biggest challenges today, from the environment and global health to human rights and artificial intelligence.

Diversify Photo

Diversify Photo is a community of BIPOC and non-Western photographers, editors, and visual producers working to break with the predominantly colonial and patriarchal eye through which history and the media have recorded the images of our time.