Karen Kasmauski
GRANTEE
Karen co-founded Little Black Dog Productions to advise companies and NGO’s on producing visual communication strategies and effective storytelling on global health and global change issues.
Her award-winning book NURSE: A World of Care explores global issues facing nursing and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Karen’s previous book IMPACT: From the Front Lines of Global Health examines the causes of infectious diseases throughout the world. Former President Jimmy Carter wrote introductions for both books.
Karen was a director on the 2015 documentary film Fall Seven Times, Get Up Eight—The Japanese War Brides, which aired globally on BBC.
During her two decades as a National Geographic photographer, Karen produced 25 major stories for the magazine.
After receiving a Getty Images grant to produce a video on the struggles of an environmental nonprofit, Karen was awarded a Knight Fellowship to get a master's in visual communication at Ohio University.
Karen leads photography tours for National Geographic and other clients in locations ranging from Antarctica to the Galapagos. She teaches video storytelling, photojournalism, and news writing at George Washington University, The Corcoran School of Art, and George Mason University.
Karen is currently developing an in-depth environmental project and completing a new book.
