Kathleen Flynn
St. Petersburg Times
Staff
Kathleen Flynn has been a photojournalist at the St. Petersburg Times since December 2002 covering local, national and world news. After graduating from Western Kentucky University, Kathleen worked in New Orleans then studied Spanish in Costa Rica while documenting a ministry that helps street children and the homeless in San Jose. In addition to her dedication to community journalism in Florida, she has covered the tsunami in Thailand, immigration in Mexico, post-conflict Liberia, India’s booming pharmaceutical industry and Haiti.
Flynn was named the National Press Photographers Association Region 6 photographer of the year, 2004. Thanks to a grant from the University of Massachusetts’ Center for Democracy, Flynn visited Liberia in 2008 and 2009 to help train and equip the country’s journalists there to better cover the issues affecting their government and people. She believes that a healthy media base is one way to help increase the country’s chances of maintaining peace.
