David M. Barreda is a visual editor, multimedia producer, curator, and journalist. He is currently the Senior Photography Resident at National Geographic, where he edits on the History & Culture desk, and is a core team member of Diversify Photo.

Previously, David was a photo editor at Earthjustice, a founding editor at Topic, and a founding editor for ChinaFile where he launched the Abigail Cohen Fellowship in Documentary Photography in collaboration with the Magnum Foundation.

He has more than 20 years of visual journalism experience and prior to editing, he worked as a staff photojournalist at the San Jose Mercury News, the Rocky Mountain News, the Valley News, the Tallahassee Democrat, and the Herald of Randolph. He is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism, where he received his Master’s degree, and of Middlebury College, where he majored in Geography and Environmental Studies.

Born in southern Peru and raised on a sheep farm in Vermont, David lives in Oakland, California, with his partner, their 9-year-old daughter, and Dandelion, a poodle-terrier, Covid-adoptee rescue dog.