Awards
2012 InterAction Humanitarian Photography Award – 1st Place
2012 Photography Open Salon Arles – Honorable Mention/Screening Installation
2010 Gordon Parks Photography Awards – 3rd Place
2009 Gordon Parks Photography Awards – Honorable Mention
2008 International Photography Awards – Honorable Mention Portraiture
2006 International Photography Awards - Honorable Mention Portraiture
2006 Outdoor Photographer’s Incredible Journey Contest 2006 – 2nd Place
Exhibitions
October 2012 Being There: the Congo, DogPatch Studios, San Francisco, CA
July 2012 Together for Girls, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC
November 2007 Images of Hope from Darfur, Frisson Restaurant, San Francisco, CA
October 2009 Survivors – Women in the DRC, The Setai, New York, NY
September 2009 Survivors – Women in the DRC, Project One Gallery, San Francisco, CA
December 2007 REFUGEE: Images of Hope From Darfur, Frisson Restaurant, San Francisco, CA
June 2007 Iraq – Beyond the War, Frisson Restaurant, San Francisco, CA
September 2006 REFUGEE: Images of Hope from Darfur, Left Space Studios, San Francisco, CA
October 2006 REFUGEE: Images of Hope from Darfur, Farmani Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
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