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We are delighted to announce that Anastasia Rudenko, a photojournalist from Russia, is the winner of the 2017 Persephone Miel Fellowship, selected from a pool of 200 applicants. Rudenko will report on women interned at a psycho-neurological boarding house in Russia and their capacity to build relationships while living in an institution.
The Miel fellowship honors the memory of our friend and colleague Persephone Miel, former senior advisor of Internews. Persephone passed away in 2010 after a long battle with cancer. Before her death, Persephone said she wanted to be remembered by a fellowship that would help media professionals outside the U.S. report on their home countries and bring their work to a broader international audience.
Persephone "had a very clear vision of what she wanted," Pulitzer Center Executive Director Jon Sawyer said at the time. "She's trying to make an opportunity for voices to be heard beyond a region, beyond a country in a larger world, and give us the opportunity to bring those voices to the widest possible audience."
Learn how you can support the Persephone Miel Fellowship Fund today.