Exhibits / Lectures / Awards

FiftyCrows Gallery – Social Change Photography, Solo Exhibit
49 Geary, San Francisco, CA, April 8 - May 15, 2010
OPENING RECEPTION: April 15th, 4:00-7:30 PM

Keynote Speaker, 2010 Stop Traffic Now Conference, The University of Missouri,
Columbia, February 27, 2010

FOTOWEEK DC 2009, Iraqi Voices - Curated by Lucian Perkins and featuring the
work of ten renown photographers, Iraqi Voices provides a human face to the Iraqi
population largely ignored by the media's coverage of the war in Iraq. Work by:
Andrea Bruce, Mimi Chakarova, Lori Grinker, Amro Hamzawi, Chris Hondros, Farah
Nosh, Robert Nickelsberg, Moises Saman, Peter Van Agtmael, and members of
Associated Press, Washington DC, November 7-14

MOMENTUM 2009 Speaker, Conflict plenary, Sponsored by the Tides Foundation
San Francisco, September 7-9

2009 IRE Conference Speaker, "Covering Invisible Populations," Sponsored by the Dart
Center for Journalism and Trauma, Baltimore, June 11-14

Participant: Teaching Trauma Workshop; Sponsored by the Dart Center for Journalism &
Trauma and the Center for Global Studies at the University of Washington
San Francisco State University, April 24-25, 2009

Featured Speaker: Slavery in the 21st Century, 2009 Sex Trafficking Conference
South Texas College, April 2009

NOMINEE FOR THE 29th ANNUAL NEWS & DOCUMENTARY EMMY® AWARDS,
THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF TELEVISION ARTS & SCIENCES; New Approaches
to News & Documentary Programming: Arts, Lifestyle & Culture

Foreign Correspondent Training Course, Transitions Online
Prague, Czech Republic, July 2008

2008 WEBBY AWARDS People's Voice Winner, Online Film & Video,
News & Politics: Individual Episode
"Dubai: Night Secrets," reported and produced by Mimi Chakarova.

Featured Speaker and Art Exhibit: "What We Leave Behind"
Sex Trafficking Conference: Addressing the Demand
South Texas College, April 2008

World Slavery Awareness Week, Social Justice League
Washburn University, Sociology/Anthropology Department, February 2008

Foreign Correspondent Training Course, Transitions Online
Prague, Czech Republic, July 2007

Photo Reportage of Sex Trafficking in Eastern Europe / Summer Research Grant
Townsend Center for the Humanities, UC Berkeley, June 2007

Keynote Speaker: "The Price of Sex," Human Trafficking Conference
South Texas College, April 2007

Panelist, "Why Should I Care?: Bringing Remote Stories Home," Third Annual International
Reporting Conference
Graduate School of Journalism, UC Berkeley, April 2007

Guest Speaker and Photography Judge, Wisconsin News Photographers Association
Milwaukee Art Museum, March 2007

Keynote Speaker, Women and War Conference
South Texas College, April 2006

What's On Her Mind? Sex Trafficking of Young Women in Eastern Europe
Saint Mary's College of California, November 2005. Sponsored by the Women's Studies Program,
the Women's Resource Center, and Amnesty International

Capitalism, God, and a Good Cigar: Cuba Enters the 21st Century
Photography exhibit and book party, September 7 – December 15, 2006
Center for Latin American Studies, University of California, Berkeley

2005 Magnum Photos Inge Morath Award
for photo reportage on trafficking of young women in Eastern Europe

Photography Visiting Lecturer, California College of the Arts
Oakland, California, 2004-05

Visiting Lecturer, University of Beijing
School of Journalism and Communication, March 2005

World Affairs Council of Northern California
Photographs of Kashmir, San Francisco, January 31 –- March 31, 2005

Don't look back: Photographs of Eastern Europe
Townsend Center for the Humanities, UC Berkeley, 2004

2004 Distinguished Faculty Mentor Nominee
UC Berkeley

Visiting Lecturer, University of Kashmir, India

The 2003 Dorothea Lange Fellowship
for outstanding work in documentary photography

Photo Alliance
Photography Lecture, San Francisco Art Institute, October 2002

The SoHo International Art Exhibition
Agora Gallery, West Broadway, New York, July 26 –-August 15, 2002

Stanford University, African & African-American Studies Winter 2002 Lecture Series
January 18, 2002: A Documentary Photographer's Journey”   

The Swedish American Museum Center
Chicago, Illinois, October 2001
Silent auction for Sarah's Circle, a drop-in center, safe refuge and fresh start
for women who are homeless, transient and of low income.

EXPOSED: Contemporary Photography in the New Millennium
Fulton Street Gallery, Troy, New York, September 19 –- October 22, 2001

The Center for Photography
“The Distance Between Us” Solo Exhibit
Graduate School of Journalism, University of California,  Berkeley, April 9-May 4, 2001

Bechtel International Center
Solo Exhibit and Lecture
Stanford University, April 5 –- May 1, 2001

TD An Installation Space
Solo Photography Exhibit, Mimi Chakarova: Recent Work,”
South Park, San Francisco, February 15- March 22, 2001