SoVA Anderson Lecturer

Rebecca Kiger

SoVA Anderson 2526 Lecturer Rebecca Kiger

Anderson Lecture – March 3, 2026

Rebecca Kiger is a documentary photographer, a Center for Contemporary Documentation fellow, and an artist-in-residence at high schools in the Rust Belt of Appalachia. She is a frequent contributor to Time, the New Yorker, the New York Times, and The Washington Post. She recently received awards from the Society of Environmental Journalists, Pictures of the Year, and World Press Photo for her year-long-project covering the toxic train derailment that took place in East Palestine, OH. (She will be the 2025–2026 Visual Communications Knight Fellow at Ohio University). Rebecca lives in Wheeling, WV.

Black and white image of what appears to be a rural poor white middle-aged mother standing with four children.
A gritty black and white image showing two rows of Army multi-cultural recruits sitting across a long white table on which napkin dispenser are each emblazoned with the text "Celebrate a World of Flavors."