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April Witt is an award-winning journalist whose work has been published in newspapers, magazines and books. She has twice been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize - once for feature writing and once for investigative reporting. She began her career at a small newspaper in Mississippi. She rose to top staff assignments at the Miami Herald and The Washington Post where she covered demanding beats, served on the investigative reporting teams and wrote cover stories for their Sunday magazines. April had her first photographs published when she was a foreign correspondent for The Washington Post in Afghanistan.  Her photographic portrait series "Trance" was exhibited in July-August 2015 in Berlin, Germany. In 2017, April won two top awards from the Washington, D.C. chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists: the Correspondent Award as well as well as first place in magazine feature writing. Both awards were for "Lasting Impact,” an article April wrote on police officers who investigate fatal roadway crashes.  The judges' comments: “The story of Montgomery County’s vehicle collision investigators is deeply reported with great attention to detail and beautifully written. It captures the technical nature of the work as well the heartbreak.” April is on a lifelong mission to learn, create, contribute and find new challenges.