I was so energized to engage with our Girls Who Code community––including members of our first ever Alumni Council––in advance of our CodeFair celebration! These young women are dynamic, thoughtful, accomplished and kind, among too many attributes I could list to describe them.

NPPA provides 24/7 legal counsel, which our members have access to, in order to help you navigate legal issues that may arise while covering news events or other First Amendment issues. #NPPADay #IAMNPPA

Tomorrow is NPPA Day! Are you ready to celebrate with us?? Upload a video sharing why you love the NPPA or a memory from one of our events, and don’t forget to tag us! Also, check our page tomorrow morning for a special video release in honor of NPPA Day! #NPPADay #IAMNPPA

Handling heat, practicing non-judgment, summer board meeting Sunday, and more in your weekly NPPA newsletter. Scholarship opportunities to attend the Advanced Storytelling Workshop Sept. 24-29 in Denver via the National Press Photographers Foundation! ow.ly/pO3R50PlWAQ

Your NPPA summer board meeting is underway! Great group of people, many volunteer, working to support our visual journalist members. Join at NPPA.org

PTSD, processing trauma and tragedy: reuters.com/world/us/sept-…

🚨🚨🚨 #Morocco Earthquake: CARE’s immediate priority has been to provide meals, safe water supply, emergency shelter, and medical support to families that the earthquake has impacted. Give now 👉 care.org/HeplMorocco care.org/news-and-stori…

Registered yet? It’ll be a good one. That list of speakers…👏 Les go. Learn more here: nppa.org/info/register-…

Let’s build.

.@NPPF du Cille Fellowship deadline, remembering Alcatraz occupation, life at the Crick, and more in your weekly NPPA newsletter. This week's contributor is News Photographer editor @suelmorrow ow.ly/hYn850PQglZ

Nominations for NPPA Board and Regional Chairs are open, New York floods and more in your weekly newsletter. Big thanks to contributor Ash Ponders! Photo of Howard Simmons, Bob Black, John White and Ovie Carter by Chris Sweda/Chicago Tribune ow.ly/bmL550PT7Oc

Day 2 of our Annual Staff Retreat really set the tone! We had a lovely opener from our Culture Committee Team – a warm welcome and tenure game where folks lined up from the date they began working at Girls Who Code. The catch was that we had to do it without talking...

By the end of our retreat, we had embodied every single one of our core values: Sisterhood, Candor, Bravery, and Girls-First Leadership. We learned what coding and crochet had in common and how to identify community in everyday life. We even learned about the power of

Attn folks! Interested in serving on the @nppa board? See below. Inquire or send along your name or a nomination by 10/29. 👇👍 #visualstorytelling #visualjournalism

CARE is increasingly concerned by reports from medical personnel it works with in Gaza, that injured patients are having to undergo surgery without anesthetics, including pregnant women being admitted for emergency C-sections. ow.ly/YOBn50Q2lkB

Heartbreaking news hit our @nppa community this week… #empathy #community Please read more here: nppa.org/news/65441ac6a…

Vote for open NPPA Board seats, the dangerous world of generative AI, a portrait of grief, and more. Thanks to Christopher T. Assaf, Ph.D. for writing this week! ow.ly/M9Hr50Q5wXy

Congratulations to NPPA’s new president Carey Wagner (Carey Wagner) on leading her first Executive Committee meeting tonight. Proud of you, friend. We’re normally not as serious, I promise 😅

Had a fantastic experience with Deanne Fitzmaurice and Carey Wagner as the team NikonUSA instructors this week. Humbled to teach 100 stellar students alongside these two legends.

The news is out 🥹 Thanks to Nikon’s support, Black Women Photographers has provided talented Black creatives globally with $50,000 in financial grants and an additional $20,000 in Nikon mirrorless gear. ✨ We’re changing lives one grant and resource at a time. ✨