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“Photography is ‘the humanity of the moment.'” – Robert Frank
Kara Elyse Henderson is an award-winning journalist, photographer, and producer. Her work has appeared in AfroTech/Blavity, Ms. Magazine, Austin Woman, Black Pittsburgh Magazine, and more. She holds degrees from the University of Pittsburgh and UT Austin, where she studied multimedia broadcasting and digital journalism.
Kara’s storytelling centers equity, legacy, and global impact. She earned two Robert L. Vann Media Awards in 2024—one for a documentary honoring her grandfather, Dr. Donald M. Henderson, and another for a feature on Kakenya Ntaiya’s work to end child marriage and FGM in Kenya. Her creative agency, Mindful Media, has appeared in Adweek and Forbes and produced the Telly Award-winning “Care for All” campaign for Ascension Health.
SELECT WORKS
Awards
WRITTEN WORKS
Written Works
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Medium (Mama Kadiatou’s Legacy, Dance Lessons)
- Ms. Magazine
- Pittwire
- How Pitt alumna Kakenya Ntaiya fights for the rights of women and girls in rural Kenya
- MLB, USA Softball and kids alike use a Pitt inventor’s smart bats and balls
- Pitt’s Equestrian Club brings a little country to the city
- Pitt helped bring a gospel pioneer’s music back to life
- See a new portrait honoring the first Black woman to graduate from Pitt’s School of Pharmacy
- This professor uses scholar activism to change common perceptions of what research at Pitt looks like
- 9 tips for better sleep, from the people who keep Pitt athletes well rested
- A Ukrainian Pitt professor on the one-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion
Photography
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- Events + Nightlife
- Fashion
- People + Portraits
- Places
- Published Work
- Weddings
The Midwest
Iceland
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