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.