Rebecca Droke

Rebecca Droke is a staff photographer for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. She graduated from Ohio University in 2005 with a Bachelor of Science in Visual Communication. After graduation, she worked at The Durango Herald in southwest Colo., before joining the Post-Gazette in 2006. Her assignments have taken her across Pennsylvania on the Obama bus in 2008, to the New Jersey shore after Hurricane Sandy and Newtown, Conn., to cover the one year anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings. Her speciality is sensitively photographing ordinary people. You can follow her on Twitter @rebeccadroke.

In Focus: Behind the scenes at ‘The Nutcracker’

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“It’s where ballerinas are born,” says Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre principal Julia Erickson about “The Nutcracker.” It’s a proving ground where core members get the opportunity to dance solos in hopes they might be elevated to soloist or principal. Danielle Downey, a member of the core, remembers seeing “The Nutcracker” performed by the Lake Erie Ballet when she was 6 years old. “I wanted to be on stage.” View The Gallery >

Canonization

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Pope Francis canonizes Junipero Serra during a mass at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, DC on Wednesday, September 23, 2015.

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