Kathleen Flynn
Kathleen Flynn is a visiting faculty member at the Rochester Institute of Technology. She will be teaching during the spring 2018 semester. In 2016, Kathleen was named the Multimedia Photography and Design Fellow at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, where she has taught and studied for a year and a half. She came to the fellowship with more than 15 years as a working journalist, including a decade at the Tampa Bay Times (formerly the St. Petersburg Times) and three years at NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune in New Orleans.
In 2016, Kathleen was part of a small team of documentarians who traveled for three months creating “Veterans Coming Home,” a multi-platform public media project made possible by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting for PBS. She and her team, half of whom were veterans, explored ideas of service and citizenry in an effort to give a voice to veterans while opening
national dialogue about veterans’ issues.
In addition to her dedication to community journalism in Florida and Louisiana, Kathleen has covered Hurricane Katrina, the tsunami in Thailand, immigration in Mexico, post-conflict Liberia, India’s booming pharmaceutical industry, the war in Afghanistan, and Haiti. Her work has received numerous awards, including six regional Emmys in 2013, 2014 and 2016, honors in 2012 and 2013 from the National Press Photographers Association’s Best of Photojournalism and a 2013 Casey Medal, awarded for the nation’s best reporting on children, youth and families. Flynn was named the NPPA’s Region 6 photographer of the year in 2004.