2024 Dart Award Final Judging Committee
The final judging committee selected two Dart Award winners and two honorable mentions
His work has been recognized with various honors, including Pictures of the Year International, National Press Photographers Association, and the Dart Awards for Excellence in Coverage of Trauma.
He is a 2022 Dart Center Ochberg Fellow and currently an adjunct professor at the University of Minnesota teaching photojournalism. Gonzalez has extensively covered the protests and unrest following the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. He followed it up with a project about Floyd in his hometown of Houston, spending time in the Third Ward neighborhood where he grew up with his friends and family members. Gonzalez’s work was part of the Star Tribune’s Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the police killing of Floyd.
Sacha Pfeiffer is a correspondent for NPR's Investigations team and a guest host for NPR's national shows. She came to NPR from the Boston Globe's Spotlight team, whose stories on the Catholic Church's cover-up of clergy sex abuse won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, among other honors. That reporting is the subject of the movie Spotlight, which won the 2016 Oscar for Best Picture.
Pfeiffer was also a senior reporter and host of All Things Considered and Radio Boston at WBUR in Boston, where she won a national 2012 Edward R. Murrow Award for broadcast reporting. While at WBUR, she was also a guest host for NPR's nationally syndicated On Point and Here & Now, and anchored election coverage, debates, political panels and other special events. She came to radio as a senior reporter covering health, science, medicine and the environment, and her on-air work received numerous awards from the Radio & Television News Directors Association and the Associated Press.
Pfeiffer was a John S. Knight journalism fellow at Stanford University, where she studied at Stanford Law School. She is a co-author of the book Betrayal: The Crisis in the Catholic Church and has taught journalism at Boston University's College of Communication.
Soraya Seedat is a Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Executive Head of the Department of Psychiatry at Stellenbosch University. She held the South African Research Chair in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder for 15 years (until the end of 2022) and currently directs the South African Medical Research Council Unit on the Genomics of Brain Disorders. She has more than 25 years of clinical, epidemiological and basic neuroscience research experience as a psychiatrist working in the field of traumatic stress, anxiety and neuroAIDS and has published over 500 peer-reviewed journal manuscripts, co-edited four books and 30 book chapters. She has served two terms as the president of the College of Psychiatrists of South Africa and three terms as secretary and is currently the editor-in-chief of the Journal of the Colleges of Medicine of South Africa.
Soraya is an expert in the field of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and anxiety disorders in adolescents and adults, and in the investigation of mechanisms of risk and resilience in adolescent and adult samples, and has published widely in these areas. She has ongoing projects in PTSD, anxiety disorders, neuroAIDS and fetal alcohol spectrum disorders. She has also been involved in multiple research training, capacity building and leadership development activities in sub-Saharan Africa and internationally, supported by NIMH grants and other funding initiatives.
Soraya is currently president-elect of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.