AWARDS
2020 Newswomen’s Club of New York Front Page Award winner for Best Photo Editing
2019 Pictures of the Year International Newspaper Visual Editor of the Year- Award of Excellence
2019 Pictures of the Year International Online Daily Life, Visual Editing Award of Excellence (with Kerri MacDonald)
2019 Pictures of the Year International Online News & Issue Reporting, Visual Editing Award of Excellence
2019 Pictures of the Year International Print Newspaper Visual Editing- Third place
2007 Eddie Adams Workshop XX Outstanding Work
GRANTS
2014 Nathan Cummings Foundation Grant recipient
2012 Maine Arts Commission Visual Arts Fellow
2011 Good Idea Grant, Maine Arts Commission
2008 Nathan Cummings Foundation Grant recipient
PRESS
2018 New York Times- How Times Photo Interns Trusted Their Gut and Made the Front Page
2014 Buzzfeed- What Millennials Around The World Actually Look Like
2013 Grist- Millennial medium chill: What the screwed generation can teach us about happiness
2013 New York Magazine- See: Restless Collective’s Beautiful Photographs of Millennials Around the World
JUDGING & SPEAKING
Spoke to members of Danish media outlets in 2022 about the future of photojournalism
Member of the 2021 jury for Front Page Awards
Spoke on a panel in 2020 about covering the protests
Selected to speak on a panel “Covering the Migrant Trail” at SXSW 2020.
Member of 2019 jury for Front Page Awards
Member of the 2019 jury for United Photo Industry’s THE FENCE, the largest public photo exhibition in North America
Reviewer at the New York Portfolio Review in 2018 & 2019
2018 Atlanta Celebrates Photography lecturer and reviewer
2017 Photoville: An Evening with the New York Times. NYT photographers and editors shared highlights from the year in photographic coverage. The presentation included selections from a project Morrigan co-edited, “America Today, in Vision and Verse.”
2016 Photoville: An Evening with the New York Times. NYT photographers and editors shared highlights from the year in photographic coverage. Morrigan and editor Jessica Dimson showed and spoke about the 2016 presidential election coverage.