Carolyn Van Houten is a staff photojournalist at The Washington Post based in Washington, DC. After growing up on a farm in rural North Carolina, she studied journalism at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Prior to joining The Post, she was the photo intern at National Geographic and a staff photojournalist at the San Antonio Express-News covering south and west Texas. Her work has been recognized by the Overseas Press Club’s Robert Capa Gold Medal, RFK Human Rights Award, Forbes 30 Under 30 in Media, Pictures of the Year International's Newspaper Photographer of the Year, among others. She worked on three of the stories in the 2C: Beyond the Limit series that won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting.

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