Illustration by Mike Centeno For Borderless Magazine
Broken-Winged Birds: Afghans In Exile
More than 76,000 Afghan refugees have fled their homes and come to the United States since the Taliban takeover of the Afghan government in 2021. In this Borderless series, Afghan journalist Saleha Soadat documents their struggles and hopes for the future.
Recognition:
This project received Lion Publishers 2022 Community Engagement Award.
Reclaiming the
Sacrifice Zone
A bilingual non-fiction comic that illustrated how a youth-led movement for environmental justice on the Southeast Side of Chicago arose in response to the proposed relocation of a polluting metal recycler to a majority Latinx neighborhood already impacted by heavy industry.
Recognition:
This comic received the Lion Publishers 2021 Best Visual Journalism Project award
Photo by Shuran Huang For Borderless Magazine
Photo by Camilla Forte/Borderless Magazine
Future of Little Village’s
Discount Mall
Still Uncertain
A bilingual non-fiction comic that illustrated how a youth-led movement for environmental justice on the Southeast Side of Chicago arose in response to the proposed relocation of a polluting metal recycler to a majority Latinx neighborhood already impacted by heavy industry.
Recognition:
This story received an honorable mention from the Institute for Nonprofit News for the 2022 Insight Award for Visual Journalism category.