Monica Herndon

Philadelphia

Staff Photographer at The Philadelphia Inquirer

Staff Photographer at the Philadelphia Inquirer // Past Chair of @vtfnabj // Runner + Plant lover + Avid reader [email protected]

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Articles

Racing to save NJ island before it’s swallowed by rising seas

3 days ago | miamiherald.com | Monica Herndon

STONE HARBOR, N.J. -- Lenore Tedesco doesn't need to venture far to witness sea-level rise. She tracks its relentless advance from her window at work. Tedesco, executive director of the Wetlands Institute in Stone Harbor, stood by the nonprofit's large conference room window in late May, surveying an expanse of salt marsh known as Scotch Bonnet Island. It was a idyllic Jersey Shore scene: osprey hovering over thousands of acres of spartina grass rippling in the breeze.
Photos of "Steakquon's" Takeover of Geno's Steaks

4 days ago | inquirer.com | Monica Herndon

Saquon Barkley was named this year's Madden 26 cover athlete. On Monday he appeared at Geno's Steaks where he made a cheeseteak and briefly interacted with fans.
Photos from Grand Slam Track Day 2

5 days ago | inquirer.com | Monica Herndon

Each racer ran in a group of two events over the weekend, with points for each finishing place. Group winners, including U.S. Olympians Kenny Bednarek and Melissa Jefferson-Wooden, took home $100,000.
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2 weeks ago | azdailysun.com | Monica Herndon

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Phillies vs. Pirates photos

2 weeks ago | inquirer.com | Monica Herndon

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Final round at the PGA-Tour Truist Championship Golf Tournament

3 weeks ago | inquirer.com | Monica Herndon |Yong Kim

Sepp Straka wins the 2025 Truist Championship at the Philadelphia Cricket Club on Sunday, May 11, 2025.
Photos of the Creator Classic at the Truist Championship

1 month ago | inquirer.com | Monica Herndon

Content Creators competed in the Creator Classic at the Truist Championship at the Philadelphia Cricket Club Wissahickon Course on Wednesday, May 7, 2025 in Flourtown, Pa.
Swarthmore pro-Palestinian encampment disbanded; 9 people arrested

1 month ago | miamiherald.com | Monica Herndon

PHILADELPHIA - Nine people - including one student - were arrested early Saturday morning on the campus of Swarthmore College as police disbanded a recently formed pro-Palestinian encampment. Shortly before 8 a.m. Vice President of Student Affairs Stephanie Ives entered Trotter Lawn, with police officers, warning the Swarthmore chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine to peacefully end the encampment they had set up on Wednesday or face consequences.
Comcast and Aramark scrubbed DEI content amid Trump crackdown

1 month ago | miamiherald.com | Monica Herndon

Comcast and Aramark in recent weeks have removed content from their websites related to diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, as companies in Philadelphia and across the country continue to grapple with the Trump administration's crackdown on what it has called potentially illegal discrimination. The two publicly traded companies also changed the job titles of key executives whose portfolios previously included overseeing DEI initiatives.
Philly’s own ‘Temple of Doom’ has fossils in the floors, stars in the ceiling, and an Egyptian room

1 month ago | miamiherald.com | Monica Herndon

As I entered the Masonic Temple in Center City and walked between two sphinx statues guarding the entryway staircase, and over a royal purple carpet featuring Freemasonry's iconic Square-and-Compasses symbol, I thought: "What's next? A pyramid with the disembodied Eye of Providence floating on top?"Alas, it was just the front desk, but that was good too since my husband and I were there to cross a tour of the temple off our Philly bucket list.