Rebekah Raleigh

Rebekah Raleigh holds a BA in Art History from Wesleyan University (Middletown, Conn.) and has finished the coursework for her MA in photojournalism from the University of Missouri (Columbia, Mo.). From 2005 to 2008, she worked at various newspapers throughout the Midwest. In Spring 2008, Raleigh left newspapers to work as a staff photographer for a travel company where she created content for 400 page catalog and taught photography workshops. After two years of traveling, Raleigh returned to her native Chicago to work as a picture editor at the Kellogg School of Management in Evanston. She is currently working on her master’s thesis, tentatively titled “The Human Gender Project,” an essay addressing the spectrum of gender presentation.

She has earned awards from several professional organizations including the Associated Press Editor’s Association, Inland Press Association, Illinois Press Association, and the Illinois Press Photographer’s Association.