Tara Pixley, PhD

Tara Pixley, Ph.D. is a Jamaican-American visual journalist and Director of the Master of Journalism program at Temple University. She is a 2022 Reynolds Journalism Fellow, 2022 Pulitzer Center Grantee, a 2021 IWMF NextGen Fellow, a 2020 awardee of the World Press Photo Solutions Visual Journalism Initiative and a 2016 Visiting Knight Fellow at Harvard University's Nieman Foundation for Journalism. Her writing and photography have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, NPR, Newsweek, Allure, HuffPost, Nieman Reports, ESPN Magazine, and the Black Scholar, among many others. Her filmic and photographic work intersect with her scholarship and advocacy, each using visual media to frame race, gender, climate futures, LGBTQ+ and immigrant communities through a liberation lens. Tara is Vice President of the NPPA Board and the Executive Director of Authority Collective — an organization by and for women of color photographers, dedicated to establishing equity in visual media — and is a Fulbright Specialist in visual media.