Mimi Chakarova Biography

Mimi Chakarova, a photographer and filmmaker, has spent the last decade documenting global topics such as violence, corruption, and the sex trade. In 2011, she released The Price of Sex, a feature-length documentary on human trafficking and corruption. At the Human Rights Watch Film Festival in New York, Chakarova received the Nestor Almendros Award for bravery in filmmaking. She was also a 2012 Dart Awards Finalist for Excellence in Trauma Coverage and the winner of the coveted Daniel Pearl Award for Outstanding International Investigative Reporting. Chakarova has 14 years of experience teaching visual storytelling at UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism, as well as African and African American Studies and Comparative Studies for Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University. She graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute with a BFA in photography and UC Berkeley with an MA in visual studies. Chakarova's work has featured in a variety of publications, including National Geographic, The New York Times Sunday Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, Ms., The Sunday Times Magazine, London, CBS News 60 Minutes, CNN World, BBC World, PBS FRONTLINE/World, and the Center for Investigative Reporting. Chakarova took over as the series curator of FRONTLINE/Worlds FlashPoint in 2007, which showcased the work of photojournalists from all around the world. Currently, she works as a correspondent for the Center for Investigative Reporting.

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