Julie Dermansky is a documentary photographer focusing on social, environment and political change. She is an Affiliate Scholar at The Center for the Study of Genocide, Conflict Resolution, a Thomas J. Watson Fellow and a recipient of an NEA grant. When not on assignment, Dermansky covers stories around the world that she is drawn to.

Dermansky was born in New York City in 1966 and grew up in Englewood, NJ. She started her career as a fine artist after getting a BFA from Tulane University in 1988, switching her focus from painting and sculpture to photography in 2004.Since then her photographs have been published internationally in magazine and newspapers including The Times of London, Der Spiegle the Guardian, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Newsweek and Time magazine. She is a regular contributor to the Atlantic’s website where her work on the Occupy Wall Street movement has been featured. Her recent exhibitions include, As I See It: Julie Dermansky Documents A World O