Awards and Exhibitions

2010 – Third Place and Honorable Mention, Gordon Parks Photography Award
2009 – Honorable Mention, Gordon Parks Photography Award
2006, 2008 – Honorable Mention, Portraiture, International Photography Awards
2006 – First Place, Outdoor Photographer Incredible Journey Contest

Survivors – Sexual Violence in the DRC
October 2009        The Setai, New York, NY
September 2009    Project One Gallery, San Francisco, CA

REFUGEE – Images of Hope From Darfur
December 2007        Frisson Restaurant
October 2006        Farmani Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
September 2006    Left Space Studios, San Francisco, CA

Iraq – Beyond the War
June 2007                 Frisson Restaurant

Other News

August 2011        Alissa featured in “O” Magazine, iPad app and Oprah.com
June 2011            Alissa featured on PopPhoto.com
October 2009        Care Through Action raises $25,000 for survivors of sexual violence in the Congo
October 2008           Alissa is featured on network television, the CW “In Harm’s Way – the War Photographers”
December 2007        Care Through Action’s first fundraiser raises over $25,000 for Darfur
June 2007                Care Through Action founded
March 2005              Alissa featured on CNN’s “Inside Africa” and BBC’s “Africa Today” reporting on a coup attempt from Equatorial Guinea
October 2003           Alissa’s work was featured on NBC Dateline News in a segment on the death of Uday and Qusay Hussein