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.