MediaStorm is excited to welcome Katie Orlinsky  to our team as the 2012 summer intern.

Katie Orlinsky is a photographer from New York City. Katie received a B.A. in Political Science/Latin American Studies from the Colorado College. Her long-held interest in international politics and a desire to raise awareness on social and humanitarian issues led Katie to journalism, and upon graduation she moved to Oaxaca, Mexico where she got her start as a photographer.

Katie is a Corbis contributor, and regularly works for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and various non-profit organizations. Her work has been published in Time, Newsweek, Le Monde, Stern, and Paris Match among other magazines. Katie was awarded the Prix Ani-PixPalace for her photographic series “Life on the Tracks: Central American Migration in Mexico” in 2010 and the POYi Emerging Vision Incentive in 2011 to support her ongoing project “Innocence Assassinated: Living in Mexico’s Drug War.”  She is currently a part-time student at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

Katie Orlinsky won the 2012 Alexia Foundation student award which includes a stipend towards a three-month MediaStorm internship in Brooklyn, as well as funding to complete her project, “Innocence Assassinated: Living in Mexico’s Drug War.” Her project looks under “the well-known narrative of cartels and crime to a less covered story of Mexico’s drug war: the innocent victim.”

Visit Katie’s website to view her work.