Mike Stocker is a staff photographer at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. His work has been recognized by POYi, the World Press, the Atlanta Seminar on Photojournalism and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards for outstanding coverage of the problems of the disadvantaged. Stocker has been a Pulitzer Prize finalist numerous times. First for Spot News Photography in 1999 for coverage of Hurricane Mitch; again in 2002 for team coverage on the impact of AIDS in the Caribbean; and finally in 2006 for Feature Photography for his exploration of Holocaust survivors as Judaism faces a new century. In 2007 he and fellow staff photographer Joe Amon won the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for International Photography for their work on AIDS Orphans. He is a graduate of the University of Florida and worked for the Hollywood Sun-Tattler and the Miami Herald before joining the Sun-Sentinel Staff since 1998. He lives in Hollywood Florida with his wife Susan, also a photojournalist at the Sun-Sentinel and their two children Mimi, 14, and Ben, 11.