Leora Kahn
Biography
Leora Kahn is a photo editor, documentary producer, and human rights advocate who founded PROOF: Media for Social Justice in 2006. She was previously director of photography at Workman Publishing and Corbis, and has worked for Time, The New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, and The New Yorker. Her organization uses visual storytelling and education to inspire global attitude and policy changes.
Sample Works
- Darfur: Twenty Years of War and Genocide in Sudan (2007) Book
- When They Came to Take My Father: Voices of the Holocaust (1996) Book
- Child Soldiers (powerHouse Books) (2008) Book
- Witnessing (PROOF: Media for Social Justice exhibition series) (2015) Exhibition
Roundtable Appearances
March 1, 2014 · ▶ Video
Identity and Fanaticism
The roundtable explored how biological, developmental, and social influences transform individuals into group members, and when ethnic, religious, or national identity crosses...
Chip Gagnon, Elise Giuliano, Liah Greenfeld, Leora Kahn, Nathan M. Szajnberg