User:Scottbwallace

''This article is about the American writer and photographer. ''

Scott Wallace (born 1954) is a freelance writer, producer, and photojournalist. A frequent contributor to National Geographic and National Geographic Adventure, Wallace is widely known as one of the original multi-faceted "convergence" journalists who use the powerful synergy of text, image, and sound. Wallace is currently at work on a book based on his experiences in the Amazon entitled, The People of the Arrow: In Search of the Amazon’s Last Hidden Tribes.

Education
Wallace graduated from Yale University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy in 1977. While attending Yale, Wallace took a year off to work as Rural Development Agent in the Peruvian Amazon, teaching literacy to Asháninka-speaking Indians located in an isolated jungle. Upon graduation from Yale, Wallace received the Juan Jose Arrom Prize and Albert Bildner Prize for excellence in Spanish language and literature. As the winner of those scholarships, Wallace returned to South America and spent a year in Brazil, Argentina, and Chile.

With revolution sweeping Central American in the late 1970s, Wallace enrolled in the Missouri School of Journalism at the University of Missouri at Columbia in order to acquire the skills needed to become a foreign correspondent. Upon graduation from Missouri, Wallace departed for El Salvador, credentialed to report for CBS News and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Career
Wallace began his professional career as a reporter for CBS News Radio and the Atlanta-Journal Constitution in El Salvador in 1983. He moved his base of operations from El Salvador to Nicaragua in 1985 in order to cover the escalating Contra War and the Reagan Administration’s efforts to oust the leftist Sandinista government from power. He continued writing for Cox Newspapers until early 1986, by which time he was writing for Newsweek and the Independent (UK). He moved to Guatemala in early 1989 and became Central America Correspondent for the Manchester-London Guardian. Throughout these years, 1983-90, Wallace continued to report on-air for CBS News Radio while field-producing for CBS television.

Since the early 1990s, Wallace has worked as a magazine writer and photographer, while producing in-depth network news magazine programs on war, international organized crime, indigenous affairs, and the environment. Wallace is a contributing editor at National Geographic Adventure and a frequent contributor to National Geographic Magazine.

Since 2001, the bulk of Wallace’s work has been for the various entities of National Geographic, including National Geographic Magazine, National Geographic Adventure, National Geographic Traveler, and the National Geographic Channel. His assignments for National Geographic have taken him from the rain forests of Brazil to the high mountain peaks of the Peruvian Andes and the rugged, windswept Wakhan Corridor in the western Himalaya of Afghanistan. Wallace specializes in the coverage of conflict over land and resources in remote locations, where crucial historical processes are unfolding beyond the sight of the rest of the world. It is Wallace’s mission to witness and document these stories and bring them to the attention of a global audience.

Wallace was contracted by the World Bank to document Bank-financed projects around the world in 2004. His travels took him to Morocco, Senegal, Mauritania, Tanzania, Eritrea, Yemen, Bulgaria, Turkey, India, Bangladesh, Thailand, Peru, Brazil, and Colombia. Following his work with the World Bank, Wallace worked on assignment for National Geographic and accompanied conservationist George Schaller on an expedition into the remote Wakhan Corridor of Afghanistan's Badakshan Province. Over the course of two months, Wallace and Schaller travelled by foot, horseback and yak; the journey was featured in the December 2006/January 2007 edition of National Geographic Adventure.

Currently, Wallace is a Public Policy Scholar at the Brazil Institute at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. While at the Center, Wallace is writing a book about the indigenous peoples of the Amazon, based on his experiences as a journalist on several assignments for National Geographic. His book, entitled The People of the Arrow: In Search of the Amazon’s Last Hidden Tribes, will be published by Harmony (Crown/Random House).

'''Writing, Television, and Photography Credits '''

Wallace’s writing has appeared in National Geographic, National Geographic Adventure, National Geographic Traveler, Harper's, Sports Afield, Conde Nast Traveler, Newsweek, Interview, The Nation, and the Village Voice among many other publications.

Wallace has produced in-depth television magazine reports for The CBS Evening News, CBS News “Eye to Eye”, CNN, Fox News, NYT/Video News International, and the National Geographic Channel.

Wallace’s photography credits include: National Geographic, Outside, Details, Interview, Newsweek, The Washington Post, Smithsonian Magazine, The Economist, and The New York Times.

'''Awards and Fellowships '''


 * 2000 – Green Eyeshade Award, Society of Professional Journalists


 * 2002 – Recipient of the Ford Environmental Reporting Fellowship


 * 2004 – Recipient of the Ochberg Fellowship from the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma


 * 2005 – Featured Photographer, Smithsonian Magazine


 * 2009 – Public Policy Scholar, Brazil Institute, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

'''Professional Organizations '''

Wallace is a member of the following organizations: Explorers Club, Overseas Press Club, Investigative Reporters & Editors, National Press Photographers Association, Society of Professional Journalists, Society of Environmental Journalists, and National Writers Union.

Anthologies
Books

"La Post-Guerra." Gangs: Stories of Life and Death in the Streets. Da Capo Press 2002.

"A Death in San Salvador." The Bedside Guardian: 38 (Selections from The Guardian 1988-89). London 1989.

'''Photographic Exhibitions '''

“Salvador-Nicaragua: Two Faces/One War” supported by a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), appeared at Kirtkland Arts Center, Clinton, New York, 1999. His exhibition, "Baghdad, USA: Recent Photojournalism from Iraq," appeared at the Banning + Low Gallery, Kensington, MD in 2004.

'''Lectures and Public Speaking '''

Wallace is an engaging public speaker who presents slide lectures on campuses and at civic meetings around the U.S. and abroad. His lectures include dramatic presentations of his three-month trek through the land of an “uncontacted” tribe in the Brazilian wilderness and accounts of his frontline experiences covering the wars in El Salvador and Nicaragua during the 1980s. He has lectured at the Explorers Club Headquarters in New York City, Yale University, Georgetown and American universities, Rotary Clubs and the Union of Brazilian Journalists in Manaus, Brazil, among many others.