Marcia Allert is the Director of Photography for The Dallas Morning News. She joined the organization in October 2016 and oversees a team of award-winning photographers, videographers, and picture editors. The team works closely with the editorial department to produce visual journalism that diversifies and deepens the storytelling. In 2017, her team won National Headliners, ASNE, and Texas APME awards for their coverage of the Dallas police shootings. Allert has also worked at the Associated Press, ABC News, The New York Times and The Daily Beast. Allert graduated from NYU Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in Photography.

Pulitzer-Prize winner Cheryl Diaz Meyer is an independent photojournalist based in Washington, D.C. She is best known for her coverage of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and her insightful documentation of women facing adversity across the globe. Whether traveling through communities entrenched in poverty and violence in the U.S. or foreign countries torn apart by war, Cheryl documents the world with empathy, finding beauty and humanity wherever she focuses her lens. Cheryl previously worked as a staff photographer at The Dallas Morning News, the Star Tribune, and as the Visual Editor for McClatchy. Her work is published internationally in the news media, in books, as well as exhibited worldwide. Cheryl has Bachelor’s degrees in both Photojournalism and German. She was born and raised in the Philippines.

Awarded the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography for his images from a brutal hurricane season in Haiti, Patrick Farrell has been a staff photographer at the Miami Herald since 1987. His work has been recognized by Pictures of the Year International, the Overseas Press Club, National Press Photographers Association and the Southern Short Course, among other awards. Farrell has documented four decades of international news events, from an earthquake in Turkey to the Columbine High School massacre to childhood poverty in the Americas. He was part of the newspaper’s staff that won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for coverage of Hurricane Andrew. In 2016, he was recognized with the Edward R. Murrow Award for a multimedia project on immigration. He has partnered with South Florida public radio station WLRN-FM to cover state politics and Doctors Without Borders to document women’s health issues in developing countries. A former Dart Center Ochberg Fellow, he recently completed a residency to teach photojournalism and digital media at Emerson College in Boston. He currently teaches documentary photojournalism at his alma mater, the University of Miami. He is married to former Miami Herald reporter Jodi Mailander Farrell and they have two daughters.

Vaughn Wallace is a Senior Photo Editor at National Geographic, contributing to the magazine’s science and environment coverage. He was previously the Deputy Photo Editor at Al Jazeera America and a photo editor at TIME, where he produced the LightBox photo blog. In 2016 and 2015, Wallace's portfolio of feature editing received Awards of Excellence from POYI. Wallace is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, where he studied journalism and the rhetoric of historic and contemporary photography. He lives in Washington D.C., and in his free time enjoys mountain biking, cyclocross racing and learning to fly.

Maisie Crow is a documentary film director, cinematographer and photographer living in West Texas. Her 2016 award-winning documentary, Jackson, is an intimate, first-of-its-kind look at reproductive health care through people in the Deep South who stand on both sides of the debate. With a world-premiere on Showtime, the Village Voice praised it as “elegant, unsettling” while New York Magazine said it “comes at a pivotal moment for reproductive rights.” Her work has twice been nominated for a News and Documentary Emmy, she has been a finalist for a National Magazine award and received an Overseas Press Club award. In addition to her documentary work, Crow has taught as an adjunct professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, CUNY Graduate School of Journalism and the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies.

Jarrad Henderson is an Emmy-award winning video producer and award-winning visual journalist and filmmaker who is respected for working strategically and efficiently with creative teams or independently in a deadline driven environments. Jarrad is a 2018 Fellow with the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute, an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University's School of Continuing Studies and the Chair of the National Association of Black Journalists - Visual Task Force. Jarrad currently works as a Video Producer in the Video franchises and Special Projects unit at USA Today where he has had the opportunity to cover the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, the 2016 Presidential Election and the Met Gala. He also produced and edited a three-part series on the barrier facing recently released people entitled, “Re-entry Back to Society, or Back to Prison” which earned him an Emmy and was a Livingston Award finalist in 2017 for his part in the National reporting on PTSD and Veteran suicide.

Yalonda “Yoshi” James is an award-winning photojournalist, video producer, and documentary filmmaker who joined The San Francisco Chronicle in June 2018. Her passion is documenting stories concentrating on social justice issues. Yoshi previously worked at The Commercial Appeal in Memphis, TN, and The Charlotte Observer in Charlotte, NC. During her tenure at the CO, Yoshi was a 2008 Pulitzer Prize finalist with her Observer team for a project called, ‘Sold a Nightmare,’ which earned them a second place Gold Medal for Public Service. Yoshi currently has two short documentary films making their rounds in the film festival circuit: “The BLM (Black Lives Matter) Bridge Protest: One Year Later,” and “Singing for KING.”