Alison Wright was a documentary photographer, author and public speaker. Wright travelled the globe documenting endangered cultures, people and issues concerning the human condition.She twice received a Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Award from the and became a Dorothea Lange Fellow in Documentary Photography at the University of California, Berkeley in 1993. After graduating from Watchung Hills Regional High School, Wright studied photojournalism as an undergraduate at Syracuse University and received a master's degree in Visual Anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley.