Evelio Contreras is a producer, shooter and editor for CNN in New York and works on multimedia projects and personal stories for cnn.com. Contreras has spent time with families coping with PTSD, addressing mental illness and life after a traumatic event, an interest that developed after covering the Virginia Tech shootings as a print reporter for The Roanoke Times. That week Evelio transitioned from print reporting to video storytelling, teaching himself video on the job and later training newsroom journalists on video storytelling. His work has been recognized by the National Press Photographer’s Association, Online News Association, Harvard's Nieman Storyboard, the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, Editor and Publisher and NPPA. Evelio also likes to tell short photo stories for Instagram that are published on CNN International’s photo gallery at cnn.com/scenes and on his feed: instagram.com/eveliocontreras. Evelio has presented and taught at more than a dozen universities and workshops across the country and abroad. In the past decade, he’s coached at the National Press Photographer’s Association workshops for multimedia and television and presented at conferences in Amsterdam and Denmark for photojournalist and storytelling groups. In 2011, he was recognized for his storytelling and community work by his hometown of Eagle Pass, Texas, on the Mexico border. Evelio is a border town kid at heart, and the son of migrant workers, who like his parents, sees his travels and journeys across the U.S. as continuing the same story that they began, which is to build a better life for folks that he meets and considers like family along the way.