Marianna is an independent photographer and journalist. Her work focuses on mental health and education discrimination, exploring how communities heal and resist. 
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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. 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. 

Marianna 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. Before her journalism career, she worked for a youth development nonprofit mentoring high school organizers who facilitated food, language and education justice workshops throughout New England.

​She is currently based in Brooklyn, with roots in San Diego and DC. 

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languages: english, português
​portrait by rudrani ghosh