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Ann believes the photographs taken by local people and the important stories they tell about the pictures provide a powerful and innovative way to bring indigenous knowledge, village voices and community concerns to help conservationists do a better job. Through exhibitions, Photovoices pictures and stories also help to educate people around the world about the need to protect nature and culture in a rapidly changing world.

Staff

Ann McBride Norton

Senior Associate
annmcbridenorton@yahoo.com

Focus

Ann McBride-Norton is the founder and director of Photovoices International which provides people in some of the most remote corners of the world with cameras, photography training and a process for telling stories about their pictures as a way to bring their voices into conservation and other decisions that affect their lives.

Previous Experience

Prior to founding Photovoices, Ann was President and Chief Executive Officer of Common Cause, a nonpartisan citizens lobby in the United States with 250,000 members nationwide. Common Cause focuses its efforts on reducing the influence of money in politics and establishing high standards of government integrity.

Ann was a Fellow at the Institute of Politics at The Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. In 2005 she was selected as a Fulbright Senior Scholar to teach at Charles University in Prague and has been a commentator for All Things Considered on National Public Radio.

Key projects

Ann initiated Photovoices in 2001 in the eastern Himalayas in China, a world biodiversity hotspot, in partnership with The Nature Conservancy. She is now leading Photovoices projects at sites of biological and cultural significance in Indonesia in partnership with WWF-Indonesia and The Ford Foundation.