Oriana Koren is a photo-ethnographer, writer and researcher based in Los Angeles, California. Over the last six years, they have documented the contributions of African descendants to American cuisine and foodways. Koren is a founder of the Authority Collective, creator and lead curator of the Lit List photo award and a co-author of the Photo Bill of Rights.
Elizabeth Krist is a founding member of the Visual Thinking Collective. She was a photo editor for National Geographic magazine for over 20 years and helped program the Society’s Storytellers Summit. She recently freelanced at The New Yorker. She is on the boards of Women Photograph and the W. Eugene Smith Fund and advises the Eddie Adams Workshop. Honors include the John Durniak Mentor Award from NPPA, and awards from POYi, Overseas Press Club, and Communication Arts. Krist curated A Mother’s Eye for Photoville and CatchLight, and the Women of Vision exhibition and book.
Emily Keegin is a Photo Director and Artist based in Oakland, CA. She has worked with TIME, ‘Sup, MTV, Colors x Studio, and Bloomberg Businessweek where she was the Deputy Photo Director. She was the Director of Photography at The Fader from 2014 - 2019 & No Mans Land Magazine from 2016 - 2020. She is currently the Photo Director at IBM. She holds a BA in photography from Bennington College and an MA in Fine Art Photography from The Royal College of Art.
Shaminder Dulai is a 9-time Emmy-nominated, award-winning photo/video journalist and creative technologist with over 20 years of experience producing stories for newspapers, magazines, TV, podcasts and digital newsrooms for global audiences. He is a Poynter Fellow, Int'l Center for Journalists Fellow, Hearst Fellow, Fund for Investigative Journalism grantee, Int'l Journalists Program grantee, New York State Council on the Arts grantee, and was a finalist for the Harvard Nieman Fellowship, Knight-Mozilla Fellowship, and JSK Stanford Fellowship. He has led departments at NBC, Newsweek magazine and Seattle's PBS affiliate, and worked on teams at The New York Times, The Daily Beast, Hearst Newspapers and many more. He is a co-founder of StatelessVoices, a co-founder of Reclaim Photo and founder of PhotoWalk.Cities. His personal projects have been published with HBO's Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Newsweek, PBS, CJR, Everyday Projects, MSNBC, NBC, Global Post and The Guardian, among others.
