Brent Lewis is a Photo Editor based out of New York City and from the greatest city in the world Chicago. South Side to be exact. As a photo editor at The New York Times, he works on Breaking News and curating the Home Page. He was previously a Photo Editor at The Washington Post and was the Senior Photo Editor of ESPN’s The Undefeated, where he drove the visual language of the website based around the intersection of sports, race, and culture. He is also a founder of Diversify Photo, a groundbreaking resource for photo editors to discover photographers of color. Before turning his life over to photo editing, he was a staff photojournalist with stints at The Denver Post, The Rockford Register Star and the Chillicothe Gazette. Through the years his photos have been used by the Chicago Tribune, L.A. Times, Associated Press, Forbes, and Yahoo! News.

Gabrielle Lurie is a staff photographer at the San Francisco Chronicle. Originally from Washington D.C, Gabrielle previously worked as a freelancer in the Bay Area where she photographed for clients like the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and The Guardian. She is a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts where she studied fine art photography and art history. Gabrielle focuses on longer term stories on topics ranging from homelessness and wildfires to immigration and wealth disparity. Recently, she began organizing the Bay Area Women Photograph group where photographers in the Bay Area gather for events, to share ideas and collaborate on work. Lurie was Twice recognized as Photographer of the Year by Pictures of the Year International and was a finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize. Her work has also been recognized by the National Press Photographers Association, The 30: New and Emerging Photographers to Watch, American Photography, the Emmy Awards and more.

Jane Hahn is a Korean-American independent photojournalist and documentary photographer. She began her career in West Africa in 2007 subsequently documenting the plight of civilians in conflicts and humanitarian crises in Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Mali, Niger, Central African Republic, and South Sudan. She also focused on challenges and solutions to climate change, migration, children’s safety and education, and everyday life across the continent and beyond. She returned to the US at the end of 2019 continuing ongoing projects on the world's groundwater crisis and women's safety. Working regularly with publications including the Washington Post, New York Times, Time Magazine, Wall Street Journal, etc. and numerous humanitarian organizations, she also served as a Women Photograph mentor and an International Women's Media Fund fellow documenting El Salvador’s water crisis. She received funding from the Pulitzer Center to explore the community response to insecurity in Central Nigeria, the Open Society Institute of West Africa to document the effects of the Boko Haram Crisis on the environmentally fragile Lake Chad Basin, and from Inside NatGeo to investigate community solutions to vaccine inequity in South Los Angeles. She currently focuses on the American West.

Samantha Clark is a Science and Innovation Photo Editor at National Geographic, commissioning and curating photography for the magazine and online. Previously, she worked as a docent at Pier 24 Photography and in public radio at NPR, KQED, and KAZU as a photo editor, producer, and reporter respectively. She also was a staff writer at the Santa Cruz Sentinel, covering the environment and agriculture. She has a Masters of Journalism degree from the University of California, Berkeley.

Ed Ou is a visual journalist and documentary filmmaker. He started his career early as a teenager, covering the war between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon and the fall of the Islamic Courts in Mogadishu, Somalia while he was studying in the Middle East. He first worked for Reuters and the Associated Press, covering a wide range of news stories in the region. He then worked for the New York Times covering East Africa and the Middle East during the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings. Since then, has covered the lasting trauma of colonialism in indigenous communities in Canada, the drug war in the Philippines, the rise of extremism, and the COVID-19 Pandemic for NBC News. He completed a feature documentary looking at the intersection of American policing and those living with mental illness and has been covering the ongoing social justice protests in the wake of the killing of George Floyd. He recently won an Emmy Award for his coverage of the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean and was named the Documentary Storyteller of the Year by POYi. His visual coverage of the 6 January 2021 Capitol protests in the United States contributed to a Staff Public Service Pulitzer Prize for The Washington Post. His documentaries have been awarded a Peabody, an Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award, an International Reporting Award from the Overseas Press Club, a Canadian Screen Award, and a team Edward. R Murrow award, among others. His photojournalism has been recognised by multiple World Press Photo Awards, a Global Vision Award, World Understanding Award, Documentary Journalism Awards, and Photographer of the Year Award from POYi. He has been selected for a Getty Images Editorial Grant, PDN 30 Under 30, and took part in the World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass. He was also awarded the City of Perpignan Young Reporter Award at Visa Pour L'Image and the Young Reporter Prize from the Prix Bayeux-Calvados Award for War Correspondents. He is a TED Senior Fellow and is represented by Reportage by Getty Images.

Monica Herndon is an Emmy award winning photojournalist at The Philadelphia Inquirer. She works in a hybrid role, contributing to both still and video coverage on stories across the newsroom. Her main areas of focus are food, portraits and sports. Monica is also an FAA certified commercial drone pilot. Before moving to the cheesesteak capital of the world, she spent five years at the Tampa Bay Times, in St. Petersburg, Florida. She graduated from the University of Miami. Monica is the Chair of the National Association of Black Journalists Visual Task Force and a member of NPPA and Diversify Photo.

Ora DeKornfeld is an Emmy-award winning journalist, filmmaker and editor based in Los Angeles and Mexico City. Through verite storytelling, she seeks to shed light on the human condition behind our world’s most divisive political issues. DeKornfeld directed, produced, filmed and edited the award-winning, Emmy-nominated short, USA vs. Scott (Tribeca 2020, The New Yorker). Other independent work has received multiple awards from Picture of the Year International, including first place for Feature Multimedia, the White House News Photographers Association's Student Video Photographer of the Year, The Webby Awards, SXSW Film Festival and she has been listed on PDN’s 20 Emerging Artists to Watch in Film and Video. Her work has been showcased in the Los Angeles Times, The New Yorker, CNN, Netflix, National Geographic, The Atlantic, Vox's Explained on Netflix, among others. She is a regular contributor to the New York Times. Her work there has been nominated for four News and Documentary Emmys. In 2019, she won in the "Outstanding Editing: News" category. She was an integral part of the creative team both as a cinematographer and editor on the feature documentary film Mija, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2022 and will be released on Disney Plus in the fall.

Uwe H. Martin is an independent visual storyteller, slow journalist, researcher, and educator. His long-term projects, which combine photography with documentary film, text, and sound, focus on the significant environmental issues of the Anthropocene. With his partner, Frauke Huber, Uwe has documented global agriculture's social and environmental consequences since 2007. Using a slow journalism approach, their projects build bridges from traditional journalistic publications, over linear web documentaries and interactive apps, to spatial installations at art institutions. Over the years, Uwe has received numerous recognitions and awards for his work, including the German Reporter Award, the Greenpeace Award, the Development Media Award, and the German Short Film Award (LOLA). As an integral part of his journalistic and artistic practice, Uwe teaches photography, film, journalism, and storytelling for eco-social impact at universities, workshops, and journalism schools worldwide. He strives to empower people to become independent, expand their scope of action and bring about lasting changes in society and the environment: In 2010 Uwe cofounded the international art and research project "World of Matter," which investigates primary materials and their complex ecologies. In the same year, he also founded "Aggrey's Dream," which supported a school in Mombasa, Kenya, with four teachers, a school lunch program, and built a bakery that generates an independent income for the school. Finally, recognizing the urgent need for new ways to finance quality freelance journalism, Uwe cofounded the "RiffReporter" cooperative in 2017, a crossover between a collaborative publishing platform and a business incubator for entrepreneurial freelance journalists. His new initiative – the "Earth Vision Lab" – brings together diverse expert teams envisaging solutions to the Water-Food-Energy-Climate-Nexus. In parallel, Uwe has proposed a new practice of "Transition Journalism" that explores how journalists and visual storytellers can become agents for eco-social change.