Farrell, a 1981 graduate of the UM School of Communication, has been a staff photographer for the Miami Herald since 1987. In 2008, he was sent to Haiti in the midst of a volatile hurricane season. Haiti was devastated by three major hurricanes, Gustav, Hanna and Ike, and Farrell experienced the damage first-hand. For his photography of Haiti during that year, he won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography.

Steber is a highly-honored and internationally-known documentary photographer, educator and photo editor. In 1992, Steber published Dancing on Fire: Photographs from Haiti based on her work documenting life and death in Haiti during the 1980s and ’90s. From 1999 to 2003, Steber became the Director of Photography for the Miami Herald. Under Steber’s leadership, the Herald was twice a finalist for its coverage of the Elian Gonzalez case and received a Pulitzer Prize in feature photography in 2000. She was also the Knight Center for International Media resident professional at the UM School of Communication in 2007.