First Place, Portrait Personality - Joshua A. Bickel / The Columbus DispatchImmigration attorney Jessica Rodriguez Bell poses for a portrait with one of her clients, a mid-20s man who emigrated illegally from Mexico, at the mobile home park where he lives in northeast Columbus. When the man was 10 months old, he and his parents illegally immigrated from Mexico and they've spent the last 15 years living in this mobile home park where many other undocumented immigrants reside.
Second Place, Portrait Personality - Meg Vogel / The Cincinnati EnquirerMargaret Daniels, 75, poses for a portrait at the first annual Mothers Against Gun Violence cookout at Burnet Woods Park. Her grandson, Marcus Daniels, was shot ten times and killed outside her home. His killer has not been caught. "They don't understand what they took from me,'' said Daniels. She has been attending homicide monthly support meetings hosted by the victims advocates office in the Cincinnati Police Department.
Third Place, Portrait Personality - Meg Vogel / The Cincinnati Enquirer“No one is ever the perfect victim.” Jennifer Schoewe, was 20 years old, a junior at the University of Cincinnati, when she told police and UC Title IX investigators she was raped by another student after a party. She filed a complaint with the Department of Education Office for Civil Rights in November 2015, which opened a federal investigation into how UC handles reports of sexual assault.
Award of Excellence, Portrait Personality - Liz Moughon / Ohio UniversityFarzad Soleimani of Iran, gazes out over Copenhagen, Denmark, where he has come for a new life and education.
Award of Excellence, Portrait Personality - Nate Manley / Kent State UniversityLass Kennah, a senior applied conflict management major, poses for a portrait. Kanneh is an immigrant from Liberia where as a child he was forced into being a soldier during the Second Liberian Civil War. "I fought as a child soldier from 1999 to 2003 and I remember with in the five years it was really difficult," Kanneh said, "I saw a lot of things a normal person shouldn't see."
