Joyce Ferder Rankin

Joyce Ferder Rankin is an award-winning TV/print photojournalist who has worked for many of the world's top broadcasters including BBC, CBS, ABC, CBC, EBU, NBC , LaCinq and many more. Joyce was born and raised in Philadelphia, PA. She attended Temple University and study Radio-TV-Film Broadcasting as well as political science. Her first job was at KYW-TV NEWS and worked on stories such as Three Mile Island and the MOVE family standoff in 1978. In 1980, she moved to Washington DC to work for WJLA and left in 1981 to opened her own company TMM Corp. which provided ENG crews and editing to a global client base. In 1987, tired of being in the corporate side of the business, she went freelance working covering the world's hot spots, and was one of the few women to work as a cameraperson and video editor. Joyce's assignments included the Falklands, Operation Desert Storm and Bosnian Wars. She has shot stories in such places as Afghanistan, Cuba, Iraq and Antarctica. Her book DEGREESº and one-woman multi-media exhibition in Ireland was based on her travels to Antarctica and the Arctic documenting the effects of climate change on wildlife and landscape. She also had the honored of giving a TEDx Women talk at TEDx Stormont titled "Can we go back in time" about the effects of climate change on the Earth and the future of the human race. She has won 2 Emmys for TV News coverage as well as a distinction by the Royal Photographic Society. She splits her time between her home in Northern Ireland and in Delray Beach, Florida.