Indira Williams Babic is a visual storyteller and curator with more than 20 years of experience in photo research, editing and curation, acquisition, copyright management, digital processing, printed image quality control and Digital Asset Management Systems (DAMS) migration. As senior photo editor for National Geographic Society, Indira works with photographers to commission and direct photo assignments, and edits, processes and distributes visual content that aligns with the Society’s mission and brand standards and showcases the work of our National Geographic Explorers and storytellers. As co-director of Women Photojournalists of Washington (WPOW,) Indira is instrumental in furthering their mission of fostering the professional success of women identifying journalist and educating the public about their work. She also heads the Archiving and Digitization efforts at the White House News Photographer’s Association. Indira is currently based in the Washington, D.C./NOVA area.












