Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Damaso an award winning journalism and editor and is the founder of Clarify.Media and is also a living kidney donor.
He was a 2026 John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford and his work has been published by The New York Times, The Associated Press, The Wall Street Journal, Newsday, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Miami Herald, New York magazine, Der Spiegel and Time Asia. Previous assignments and projects have taken him to countries including Rwanda, Cuba, Indonesia, Tanzania and throughout the United States and Europe.
Damaso received the Ida B. Wells Award from the National Association of Journalists in 2024 and journalism that he has produced and edited has won awards from The Deadline Club, The Solutions Journalism Network, The New York Press Club, The New York Association of Black Journalists, and a National Headliner Award.
His photographs have been exhibited in solo shows at galleries in Barcelona, Spain; Berkeley, USA; Vienna, Austria; Budapest, Hungary; Stuttgart, Germany; Buncrana, Ireland, Uster, Switzerland and Istanbul, Turkey.
In addition to being a 2008 Fulbright Specialist, Damaso is the recipient of several fellowships including an Arthur F. Burns Fellowship; a 2012 Knight-Luce fellowship in global reporting; a 2013 French American Foundation fellowship for immigration reporting and a 2015 Holbrooke Fellowship from the International Center for Journalists.
Damaso also offers personal instruction in photography to a handful of students each year.
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