About Alie Skowronski

Bachelor of Science: Photojournalism

Bachelor of Science: Marine, Freshwater, & Estuary Biology.

National Hearst Photojournalism Awards (2021) : First Place overall

Ohio News Photographers Association (2021): Pictorial - First place / Portrait - second place

Currently, I am a staff photographer at the Miami Herald in Miami, FL. I have previously interned at the Columbus Dispatch in Columbus, Ohio, the Sacramento Bee in Sacramento, Calif., the Ann Arbor News/MLive.com in Ann Arbor, Mich., and the ActionQuest Media Team in the British Virgin Islands.

Photojournalism gives me the opportunity to meet people from different places and in various walks of life. If Scripps school of Visual Communications has taught me anything, it is that people help you tell their stories.  I have found this advice to be true time and again.  It is our job as photographers and as journalists to communicate these stories to the world.  

For partially the same reason, I scuba dive.  The underwater world is a magnificent place unlike our own, and it is dying. I feel called to bring awareness about its crippling fate.  I have dove in Ohio, Florida coast, the Florida Keys, St. Kitts and Nevis, and on a live aboard boat in the British Virgin Islands. 

I placed first in the National Hearst Photojournalism Awards in 2021 for a project I did about organ donation. I enjoy highlighting social and environmental issues by giving the people affected by them a voice. It is what I will continue to do in my years to come.