Rebecca Kiger is a documentary photographer, a Center for Contemporary Documentation fellow, and an artist-in-residence at high schools in the Rust Belt of Appalachia. She is a frequent contributor to Time, the New Yorker, the New York Times, and The Washington Post. She recently received awards from the Society of Environmental Journalists, Pictures of the Year, and World Press Photo for her year-long-project covering the toxic train derailment that took place in East Palestine, OH. (She will be the 2025–2026 Visual Communications Knight Fellow at Ohio University). Rebecca lives in Wheeling, WV.