# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/stephanie-welsh
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:52:37.091Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/stephanie-welsh"
name: "Stephanie Welsh"
slug: "stephanie-welsh"
description: "Stephanie Welsh is an American photographer turned midwife. While in journalism, Welsh worked for the Daily Nation in Nairobi and The Palm Beach Post in the 1990s. During her photography career, Welsh became the youngest person to win a Pulitzer Prize when she won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for her photographs on a Kenyan female genital mutilation. After leaving photography for nursing, Welsh worked as a midwife and academic. In the 2010s, Welsh was the secretary of the American College of Nurse Midwives from 2014 to 2015 before her promotion to vice president."
tagline: "American photographer and midwife"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1973-06-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.87
  momentum:             15
  historical:           5.470266666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephanie_Welsh"
    title: "Stephanie Welsh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A_%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%B2%D9%8A"
    title: "ستيفاني ويلزي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%89_%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%B2%D9%89"
    title: "ستيفانى ويلزى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephanie_Welsh"
    title: "Stephanie Welsh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephanie_Welsh"
    title: "Stephanie Welsh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephanie_Welsh"
    title: "Stephanie Welsh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q50858173"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump