Dr. Peggy PEATTIE
University of San Diego, United States
Peggy Peattie is an award-winning photojournalist with 40 years covering social justice issues, the Border Region, multi-cultural communities, refugees in America, health care, youth violence, teenage culture, education, gender equality, California-Mexico water, major league sports and environment issues. Having forged a personal style from covering the intersectional matrix of celebrity Los Angeles and the socioeconomic complexity of blue-collar shipyard workers, military families, and under-resourced neighborhoods, she then moved to South Carolina where she focused on the symbolic legacy of the confederate flag and the struggle to bring it down. For the last 23 years she covered culture and crime on the U.S.-Mexico border, and homelessness in San Diego. She is currently teaching still and multimedia journalism to the next generation of changemakers at San Diego State University, and the University of San Diego where she earned her doctorate in Leadership Studies. Her research focuses on Visual Critical Ethnography, utilizing visual storytelling to design focused solutions to homelessness. Her website www.talesofthestreet.com is a platform for homeless individuals to share their life stories. Her academic articles identify the social impact of changing cultural narratives by amplifying traditionally marginalized perspectives. An avid writer, lecturer and mentor at photo workshops, Peattie has also contributed to several books, was named regional photographer of the year, and received the first professional grant from the Alexia Foundation for World Peace and Cultural Understanding.