CPOY

CPOY 79 Judges

Caption
Slide 2 of 8
Sandra M. Stevenson: Still Division
September 21, 2024

Sandra M. Stevenson is an award-winning Writer / Visual Editor / Curator in the photography department at The Washington Post. As a deputy director of photography, she manages a team of picture editors who work on International, Climate, and Health + Science. Prior to joining The Post, Sandra was an associate deputy director of photography at CNN, where she managed picture editors who curated the home screen, edited stories and newsletters, as well as special projects. Prior to that, she was an Assistant Editor who oversaw digital photo editors on the news desk, and worked on visual content for Race/Related and the Gender, in addition to exclusive projects such as "Overlooked" and “This Is 18.” After receiving a BA in English from Syracuse University, Sandra spent four years working at NBC – first as a Page and then working on various news programs. From there, she became the program coordinator for the Black Filmmaker Foundation. During her time there, she held a deep commitment to helping people of color enter the film industry at various levels. Sandra then returned to the news industry, by taking on a position at The Associated Press, where she spent eight years moving up from photo assistant to overseeing photo news coverage for Latin America and the Caribbean. She also took time to work on and an advanced degree in multimedia from l’Universite Toulouse in France. Sandra was a contributing writer in the book "Unseen: Unpublished Black History from The New York Times Photo Archives." She was the picture editor and co-curator on the book "This Is 18."

    7578a4ff-306d-46a4-b6d1-ab7006b8b371
    61be9aec-8f7d-496b-ad6b-397059840a53
    f1138089-e627-43e9-b4be-e81b7fb37f15
    1709c73f-637a-426b-a5f5-c47efba4ddf6
    2f78b8dd-81e7-4034-b74f-053f0df33f5d
    0ff8fab9-6e9a-4188-af4b-76c9059ba4c6
    4ffcfbd4-46bc-4abb-9a71-3f8b3dc46eb4
    619bdf96-d528-4a20-95ee-dcf1fc359c0a
    See more at cpoy.org