Traci White, visual journalist
Traci is a 2007 graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's photojournalism program and is currently working as a staff photographer for the Daily News-Record in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Previously she worked as the photographer, videographer and writer for the Danville Register and Bee in Danville, Virginia. Traci has been producing video, editorials and multimedia since her sophomore year in high school in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and participated in several workshops and multimedia projects at Chapel Hill, including the CPOY award-winning sites On the Line: Economic Hardship in North Carolina and Smoky Mountain Stories. She was awarded a Don and Barbara Curtis Grant to create a photo story about the representation and the reality of gay and lesbian lifestyles in The Netherlands in the summer of 2007. Traci was awarded first place in the news category for the fourth quarter of 2009 through the Virginia News Photographers Association, and she has received multiple honorable mentions in the Mega Awards, both in metro and community paper photography categories, through Media General, the parent corporation of the Register and Bee as well as the Winston-Salem Journal, where she interned in the summer of 2008. Traci is also available for weddings through Whitmeyer Photography, based in Asheville, North Carolina. When Traci isn't busy working or talking about herself, she enjoys traveling, attempting to cook, watching Bravo, and this.