Walker Dawson

Born and raised in San Francisco, Walker graduated in 2013 from the New School University in New York City, majoring in International Relations and minoring in Chinese. He spent the past few years working as a freelance photojournalist and documentary videographer in Latin America looking at environmental issues and labor rights in a gold mining community in the Peruvian Andes; the effects of cartel violence on communities in Chihuahua and Sinaloa, Mexico; and the cultural renaissance in multi-ethnic São Paulo, Brazil. Recently, Walker has been documenting the role of public libraries in refugee communities in Germany, the transformation of synagogues into public libraries in post-Holocaust Poland, and the programs and support for internally displaced people and veterans in public libraries in Eastern Ukraine. He currently is working as a Video Producer for LensCulture while getting his masters at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism.

EDUCATION

  • The New School University-International Relations and Chinese

EMPLOYERS

  • LensCulture-Video Producer

REPORTING INTERESTS

Arts, Immigration, International, Politics, Urban Reporting

MEDIA PLATFORMS

Photojournalism, Video Journalism