Photojournalist April Saul made Camden, NJ her unofficial beat while working at the Philadelphia Inquirer, and has continued to document that community with the help of an Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellowship. A graduate of Tufts University with an Master’s Degree from the University of Minnesota, Saul became the first female staff photographer at the Baltimore Sun in 1980 and joined the Inquirer the following year. Saul, a single mother of two, has won numerous honors for her writing and photography, including the Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Journalism and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. Her Facebook page “Camden, NJ: A Spirit Invincible” currently has over 23,000 followers.
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