Lelen Bourgoignie, associate professor, University of Miami. Bourgoignie is an associate professor and coordinator of the photography program and Bachelor of Fine Arts program in visual communication at the University of Miami. She reorganized the Wilson Hicks International conference on Visual Communication in 1995 and 1997 and is currently organizing the 2001 conference. In addition, she has directed the Women in Photojournalism exhibits for the 1995 and 1999 conferences. Her work has received honors in the 51st and 53rd POY competitions and is in the permanent collection of the Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Florida. Currently she is working on a video-documentray on contempory working photojournalists titled "Through Their Eyes, In Their Own Words."

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