Marianna is an independent photographer and journalist. Her work focuses on mental health and education discrimination, exploring how communities heal and resist.
Her writing and photography have been published in The Atlantic, Boston Globe, Providence Journal, and MinnPost and cited in The New York Times, Politico, and Chalkbeat. She is an Up Next member of Diversify Photo, and as a 2022-23 Poynter-Koch Media and Journalism Fellow, developed a visual storytelling toolkit for small newsrooms.
As a former staff reporter with The 74, she catalogued the cost of challenging segregation for families prosecuted for sharing addresses to send their kids to better schools, the emergence of far-right and anti-LGBTQ rhetoric in NYC, and some of the horrors of the federal Indian boarding school system. Her work earned the 2024 Ida B. Wells Front Page Award for Exceptional Coverage of Communities of Color from the Newswomen's Club of New York.
Before Marianna's journalism career, she worked as a youth organizer in New England. She is currently based in Boston, with roots in San Diego and DC.
marimcmurdock@gmail.com
languages: english, português
portrait by rudrani ghosh