Carin Dorghalli

Carin "Care" Dorghalli is a first-generation daughter of immigrants. She's a film producer, but started out as a photojournalist at the Chico Enterprise-Record. At 24, she became a Pulitzer finalist along with her colleagues for their coverage of the 2018 Camp Fire. At 26, she won two California News Publishers Association awards for her coverage of the 2020 Bear Fire: first place for her writing and second place for her photography. One of her stories made it onto the Los Angeles Times list of "The Best California Writing of 2020." It was a column about how the Bear Fire burned her father's business to the ground. The experience of loss taught her how to be a more compassionate and sensitive storyteller. Dorghalli eventually left journalism to pursue a master of fine arts in film and television production from the University of Southern California. As a student, she directed a thesis documentary about a father and 6-year-old daughter who shelter people displaced by natural disasters. It won first place awards at multiple film festivals, including the Cleveland International Film Festival. Dorghalli went on to obtain two prestigious internships. First, a video internship with the Los Angeles Times. Second, a production internship with the Television Academy Foundation. In the latter, she developed documentaries for Emmy-winning company, Herizon Productions. Right after she graduated, Dorghalli produced a multi-million dollar virtual production at Sony Studios with Oscar-winning VFX team PXO on an LED volume. Today, she works on the legacy soap opera Days of our Lives while continuing to pursue her passion projects.