Marianna is a photographer and national education reporter. She is currently based in Brooklyn, with roots in San Diego and DC. Her work focuses on mental health and racism, exploring how communities heal and resist.   

​As a 2022-23 Poynter-Koch Media and Journalism Fellow, she developed a visual storytelling toolkit for small newsrooms. Her writing and photography projects have been published in The Atlantic, Boston Globe, Providence Journal, MinnPost and Edible Rhody, and cited in The New York Times, Politico, and Chalkbeat. Marianna is currently an Up Next member of Diversify Photo and served as a photo editor for three years with the Brown Daily Herald. 

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languages: english, português
​portrait by oliver farshi