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Morgan (Mo) Heim

MA - Environmental Journalism, BS - Zoology

Morgan (Mo) Heim is a wildlife photojournalist, filmmaker and adventurer focusing on wildlife-human coexistence. Her goal is to find the beauty, humor and perseverance in the struggle to make the world a better place. She began her career studying fisheries, listening to whales and working on dam removal projects. Now she uses her background in ecology and journalism to tackle subjects such as roadkill, living with cormorants, deer migration and the environmental impacts of drug cartels on forestlands.

She is the founder of Neon Raven Story Labs, a storytelling and strategy platform for conservation, and in 2020 co-launched Her Wild Vision Initiative aimed at raising the voices of diverse women in the craft of conservation visual storytelling.

Morgan is a Senior Fellow with the International League of Conservation Photographers and National Geographic grantee. Her work has appeared in National Geographic, Audubon, Smithsonian Newsweek, Telluride and Banff Mountain Film Festivals as well as as a finalist in the Jackson Wild Media Awards. She has been recognized in Wildlife Photographer of the Year and the Big Picture Natural World Photo Competitions.

Mo lives in the small coastal town of Astoria, Oregon, where the waves are big, the mountains close, and the weather not nearly as bad as everyone thinks it is.

REPRESENTED BY: Tandem Stills + Motion

NOTABLES:

National Geographic Second Assistantship Grantee, 2019
Wildlife Photographer of the Year, Highly Commended Photojournalism Single Image, 2018
Big Picture Natural World Photography Competition, Highly Commended, Conservation Photography, 2018
Philip Hyde Grant, Environmental Impacts of Trespass Marijuana, 2018
Faculty, Rich Clarkson Summit Workshop, Nature and Wildlife, 2017
Best Editing, International Wildlife Film Festival, The End of Snow, 2017
2nd Place, Film4Climate Competition, The Snow Guardian, 2016
Invited Speaker, Annenberg Space for Photography, 2016
National Geographic Expeditions Council Co-Grantee, urban coyotes, 2016
1st Place, Conservation Photography, Big Picture Natural World Photography Competition
2014 - TEDx Vail Women 2013 - Speaker "Fishing Cats & the Foolish Girl's Guide to Success"
Fund for Environmental Journalism, Society of Environmental Journalists, 2014
Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year - Semifinalist Photojournalism, 2014
Missouri Photo Workshop 64 - Student, 2012
Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year - Semifinalist 2013, 2012
Scholarship Recipient, Rich Clarkson Summit Workshop, 2008
College Scholarship Recipient, NANPA, 2008