˝Jane Therese is the first recipient of the 2021 Chinonye Chukwu Emerging Writer Award sponsored by Christine A. Schantz and Athena Film Festival Writers Lab, a 2020 Academy Nicholl Fellow for her script, Sins of My Father, and a recipient of the 2019 Athena IRIS Screenwriting Lab. Jane is a member of NYWIFT, NPPA, WIA, as well as an award-winning screenwriter and photojournalist. She is a native of Southern California and now resides along the Delaware River in Bucks County, PA. Her writing and photojournalism delve into the origins of social customs and beliefs. During her career she has traveled to Haiti documenting the effects of the Duvalier regime, worked with Indigenous people throughout the world and displaced families in America, as well as shepherded the project, Breaking the Silence of Autism. Her photos and articles have appeared in the New York Times, Newsweek, Trenton Times, and in international publications in Japan, Paris, and London.