Regina H. Boone

Regina H. Boone, is an award-winning photojournalist, who has spent more than 20 years documenting human resiliency from her hometown of Richmond, Va., working for her family’s weekly newspaper, the Richmond Free Press, to Detroit where she worked for nearly 14 years at the Detroit Free Press. In 2016, Time magazine chose a portrait of hers as its cover image documenting the Flint water crisis. This same photograph, a toddler afflicted by the contaminated water made CNN’s 2020 list of “100 Photos that Defined the Decade.” After receiving a BA in Political Science at Spelman College Regina taught English on the JET Program while living in Osaka for three years. Later she studied photojournalism as a graduate student at Ohio University’s School of Visual Communication. In 2018, she completed the Knight-Wallace Fellowship at the University of Michigan, where she began researching her paternal Japanese grandfather, Tsuruju Miyazaki, and his wrongful arrest on December 7, 1941 in Suffolk, Va., along with other people of Japanese descent across the country.