Memberships and Accreditations

Trainings, Seminars, Workshops, Awards and Grants

  • CalFire Roundtable Training - SF Chronicle - June 2024
  • Diversify Photo Member Reviews - June 2024
  • Interactions with Law Enforcement - NPR - April 2024
  • Safety Across America Course - IWMF- February 2024
  • POC Visual Leadership Salon - Authority Collective - February 2024
  • Trauma-Aware News Leadership - The Dart Center - December 2023
  • Mentor - NPPA Mentorship Program - December 2023- Ongoing
  • Jurist - Diversify Photo Photos of the Year - December 2023
  • Initial Photo Editor - 21st Smithsonian Photo Contest - November-December 2023
  • Host - Diversify Portfolio Portfolio Review - October 2023
  • Advanced Camera Trapping - Summit Workshops - May 2023
  • Phoenix Office of Arts + Culture Grant Jurist - May 2023
  • The Future of the Saguaro Symposium - UA Desert Lab - April 2023
  • ASME Award for Design, Photography and Illustration  - March 2023
  • Nat Geo Storytellers Summit - National Geographic - January 2023
  • Secondary Photo Editor - 20th Smithsonian Photo Contest - January 2023
  • Initial Photo Editor - 20th Smithsonian Photo Contest - October-December 2022
  • Basic Outdoor Rock Climbing - Arizona Mountaineering Club - October 2022
  • Host - Diversify Portfolio Portfolio Review - October 2022
  • Phoenix Office of Arts + Culture Grant Jurist - October 2022
  • Ascending for Photography - Lady Lockoff - July 2022
  • Kalish Workshop - Reynolds Journalism Institute scholar - June 2022
  • Wildlife Photographer of the Year: Horizon Shortlisted - Natural History Museum, London - May 2022
  • Danielle Villasana Intensive Workshop - May 2022
  • Wildland Fire Training for Journalists - Reuters / Key Objectives - April 2022
  • Northern Short Course - March 2022
  • Kidnap for Ransom Avoidance and Survival Training - Disney/Nat Geo - March 2022
  • Nat Geo Storytellers Summit - National Geographic - January 2022
  • PADI Open Water SCUBA - Dr. Jason Gulley - January 2022
  • Eddie Adams Workshop XXXIV student - October 2021
  • NPPF Grantee - May 2021
  • Northern Exposure - Hubbard School - April 2021
  • WPOW Seminar and Portfolio Review - WPOW - April 2021
  • Covering Riots and Civil Unrest - Dart Center - January 2021
  • Field Safety and Security - NPPA - January 2021
  • Nat Geo Storytellers Summit - National Geographic - January 2021
  • Online Harassment: Strategies for Journalists’ Defense - Knight Center - November & December 2020
  • NPPA Mentorship Program Mentee - NPPA - October 2020 -2021
  • Protest, Civil Disobedience, and Riot Training - Dow Jones - October 2020
  • Mountain Workshops - September 2020
  • Covering Protests in a Time of COVID-19 - Key Objective/ Reuters - August 2020
  • IWMF United States Journalism Grantee 2020
  • Legal training for reporters covering protests - RCFP - July 2020
  • Legal training for reporters covering the DNC - RCFP  - July 2020
  • Hostile Environment and First Aid - Silkroad Training/ ACOS - June 2020
  • Arizona Commission on the Arts Arizona Artists and Arts Professionals Grantee 2020
  • PPE Training - Dow Jones - June 2020
  • Infection Control Workshop - Key Objectives/ Reuters - May 2020
  • Boreal Bash V: Coxcatlan - Boreal Collective - December 2018
  • Los Gundlauckners: Oaxaca - November  2017
Phoenix based; available for work in Latin America and the US Southwest.
+14808334800
ashponders@gmail.com
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