Judy Siviglia received her master’s degree in Mass Communication from the North Carolina School of Journalism at Chapel Hill in 1995. After graduation, she spent a year in San Francisco as the assistant photo editor on Rick Smolan’s 24 Hours in Cyberspace. She returned to North Carolina to work as a newspaper photographer, first at the Gaston Gazette and, then, at The News & Observer in Raleigh. Working at The News & Observer, she became interested in recording audio for picture stories and started producing multimedia pieces of her work. This led to a job with newsobserver.com, where she introduced audio, video, multimedia slideshows and interactive graphics to the newspaper’s web site. She recently moved to Portland, Oregon with her partner and is taking care of their 2-year-old son.