Tara Pixley is a 2016 Knight Nieman Visiting Fellow, is a Los Angeles-based visual journalist, writer, and professor with 15 years of experience as a photojournalist and photo editor for news media. Her writing and photography has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, ProPublica, and the Black Scholar. She is a co-founder and board member of Authority Collective, an organization dedicated to diversifying perspectives in visual media.