Antrim Caskey Wins Robert Kennedy Journalism Awards
Congratulations to artist Antrim Caskey, who will be exhibiting her work at this year's festival, who was recently announced as a winner of the 43rd Annual Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards for her work 'Dragline,' a photographic expose of mountaintop removal coal mining.
The winners this year reflect the interests of Robert Kennedy, particularly in justice and the plight of the downtrodden, said RFK Journalism Committee Chair Margaret Engel. From the creative use of cartooning to illustrate solutions to poverty, to the persistence of a reporter continuing to cover Americas prisoners in Cuba, the journalists brought originality and passion to their work. From obvious places of misery, including Haiti and Afghanistan, to the still-sensitive issue of campus rapes and their unseen collateral damage, the winning journalists put their talents to use on behalf of people endangered by violence and destruction.