Alexa Keefe is a Senior Photo Editor at National Geographic magazine where she contributes to stories focused on natural history, conservation, and wildlife crime. She first joined National Geographic in 2011 as a photography producer and then became one of the founding editors of Proof, National Geographic’s award-winning digital series highlighting the experiences of visual storytellers from around the world. She started her career at U.S. News and World Report, where she was a photo archivist and photo editor from 2001-2010. Keefe’s love of storytelling began at a young age with drawing and creative writing, followed by a degree in French literature from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her passion has found its truest expression in shaping and discovering visual narratives for real-life stories. She lives in Washington, D.C. with her 13-year-old daughter.

Scott Strazzante joined the photography staff at the San Francisco Chronicle in 2014 after spending the first 27 years of his career at Chicago newspapers, including 13 at the Chicago Tribune. Strazzante is a former POY/NPPA National Newspaper Photographer of the Year, an 11-time Illinois Photographer of the Year and was part of a Chicago Tribune team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 2007 for investigative journalism. Strazzante’s Common Ground has been published in numerous newspapers and in video form by MediaStorm. The personal project has been featured in National Geographic, Mother Jones, New York Times’ Lens Blog and on CBS Sunday Morning. The two decades long endeavor has won BOP’s Best Feature Video and POYi’s Community Awareness Award and became Strazzante's first book in 2014. In 2017, Strazzante's second book, Shooting from the Hip, was released. The book consists of black and white iPhone Hipstamatic images from around the USA.

Genaro Molina is an award-winning staff photographer for the Los Angeles Times. He has worked in journalism for over 35 years, starting at the San Francisco Chronicle. He has photographed the life and death of Pope John Paul II, the tragedy of AIDS in Africa, the impact of Hurricane Katrina, California migrant farm workers, Cuba after Castro, and numerous photo essays on the issue of homelessness. Molina’s portrait work includes U2, Joni Mitchell, Steven Spielberg, Dustin Hoffman, the Dali Lama, Denzel Washington and Leonardo DiCaprio. He made the last portrait of Tom Petty a few days before Petty’s untimely death. Molina’s work has been published in several books including, “A Day in the Life of California,” “The Jews in America,” “Americanos – Latino Life in America, “Al and Tipper Gore’s – The Spirit of Family,” “In the Presence of Elephants,” and “The Photojournalistic Approach.” His photographs have been exhibited on three occasions at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C. They have also been shown at The Museum of the City of New York, The National Museum of Anthropology and History in Mexico City, and the Annenberg Space for Photography in Century City.

Adriana Teresa Letorney is the Founder & CEO of Visura.co, a technology platform where professional visual storytellers and cause organizations can build their website and share their stories and news with media professionals and the public at large. Using technology, online publishing, and a career development program, Adriana works to increase the quality, value, and diversity of visual storytelling. In 2018, she launched Visura Media. Adriana Teresa was a guest writer for the New York Times Lens Blog and Huffington Post, and she has produced and curated exhibitions and talks worldwide. She has served as a juror, nominator, and reviewer for numerous grants, scholarships and other opportunities, including the Alexia Grant, Prix Pictet, The Center for Photography at Woodstock, The New York Photo Awards, UPI's & Photoville, The Fence, and The Google Photography Prize. In 2015, Adriana Teresa co-founded Scout Film Festival, a 501(c)3 organization dedicated to supporting and celebrating filmmakers worldwide aged 24 and under. In 2019, she launched The Visura Salon Series in partnership with powerHouse Arena to celebrate new and successful forms of storytelling being deployed today. Adriana Teresa was born in 1978 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She is currently based between New York and Vermont.

Alexandra Garcia is a director/producer for The New York Times’s new television show ‘The Weekly,’ where she makes films on diverse topics ranging from international investigations to music and culture. In her last role, she was a senior story producer at The New York Times, where she helped shape and oversee some of the Times’s marquee documentary projects. Previously, she filmed, reported and edited video stories at The New York Times and The Washington Post for over a decade. Garcia has been awarded top honors in the News and Documentary Emmy Awards as well as the Edward R. Murrow, NPPA Best of Photojournalism and POYi contests. Her work often explores how visual stories can break out of a traditional mold. In 2012, she was a fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. Garcia studied painting and graphic design at the Maryland Institute College of Art and photography and film at American University.

Katie Falkenberg is an independent filmmaker and photographer based in Southern Oregon. She is a Pulitzer Prize finalist in Feature Photography for her body of work, “Motherhood in the Time of Zika,” and a recipient of the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for Domestic Photography, for her work following three families after the Great Recession. She has been named Multimedia Photographer of the Year by both Pictures of the Year International (POYi), as well as the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA). Two of her short films have been named Official Honorees in the Webby Awards, as well as screened at multiple film festivals around the country. When not working, she can be found surfing, fly-fishing, or painting.

Nick Michael is the Acting Supervising Editor for Video at NPR. He joined NPR in 2014 as the lead video producer for Jazz Night in America, NPR’s first program with companion radio and video content. Jazz Night's 2017 portfolio earned a Peabody nomination and a Webby for Online Film & Video. Since then, he has co-managed the growth of NPR’s award-winning video team, highlights of which include co-crafting the look of NPR’s signature interviews with President Obama, leading NPR’s experimentation with 360 video and audio, and coordinating 22 filmmakers across the country to document 2017’s solar eclipse. Before NPR, Nick co-founded 1504, a creative video studio now based in Birmingham, AL, whose clients have included the National Endowment for the Arts, American Red Cross, Columbia Records and the Southern Foodways Alliance. He earned a masters in photojournalism at the Missouri School of Journalism.