On this episode, Mark Simon is joined by Aryana Noroozi, a photojournalist working with The GroundTruth Project and Pulitzer Center on impactful community reporting.

Aryana talked about her career path, her photography style, and the different projects she worked on as a recent student at Columbia Journalism School. She also discussed one of her biggest projects, documenting remote learning and the impact it has on refugee families in San Diego, and an upcoming project related to losing a loved one to addiction during the time of COVID-19. She also shared her career aspirations and picked a journalism organization that she would like to salute.

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Notable stories/photo projects

- Refugee families and virtual learning

- Friendship Park – a multinational park in San Diego

- Iranians foreshadowing COVID issues

- The Fears of Undocumented Home Health Care Workers

- The class of 2024? Portraits