Damaso is the founder of Clarify.Media and has been a journalist for more than twenty years. His work has been published by The New York Times, The Associated Press, The Wall Street Journal, The San Francisco Chronicle, and Der Spiegel . Previous assignments and projects have taken him to countries including Rwanda, Cuba, Indonesia, Tanzania and throughout the United States and Europe.

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.